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stronger temptation to cupidity than anything I possessed. 

 When we get beyond the hostile population mentioned, 

 we reach a very different race. On the latter my chief 

 hopes at present rest. All of them, however, are willing and 

 anxious to engage in trade, and, while eager for this, none 

 have ever been encouraged to cultivate the raw materials 

 of commerce. Their country is well adapted for cotton ; 

 and I venture to entertain the hope that by distributing 

 seeds of better kinds than that which is found indigenous, 

 and stimulating the natives to cultivate it by affording 

 them the certainty of a market for all they may produce, 

 we may engender a feeling of mutual dependence between 

 them and ourselves. I have a two-fold object in view, 

 and believe that, by guiding our missionary labours so as 

 to benefit our own country, we shall thereby more effec- 

 tually and permanently benefit the heathen. Seven 

 years were spent at Kolobeng in instructing my friends 

 there ; but the country being incapable of raising materials 

 for exportation, when the Boers made their murderous 

 attack and scattered the tribe for a season, none sym- 

 pathised except a few Christian friends. Had the people 

 of Kolobeng been in the habit of raising the raw materials 

 of English commerce, the outrage would have been felt 

 in England ; or, what is more likely to have been the 

 case, the people would have raised themselves in the scale 

 by barter, and have become, like the Basutos of Moshesh 

 and people of Kuruman, possessed of fire-arms, and the 

 Boers would never have made the attack at all. We 

 ought to encourage the Africans to cultivate for our 

 markets, as the most effectual means, next to the Gospel, 

 for their elevation. 



It is in the hope of working out this idea that I propose 

 the formation of stations on the Zambesi beyond the 

 Portuguese territory, but having communication through 

 them with the coast. A chain of stations admitting of 

 easy and speedy intercourse, such as might be formed 

 along the flank of the eastern ridge, would be in a favour- 

 able position for carrying out the objects in view. The 

 London Missionary Society has resolved to have a station 

 among the Makololo on the north bank, and another on 

 the south among the Matabele. The Church — Wesleyan, 

 Baptist, and that most energetic body, the Free Church — 

 could each find desirable locations among the Batoka and 

 adjacent tribes. The country is so extensive there is no 



