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Lastly, we may notice the propriety of making inquiries 
or gathering information with respect to similar enterprises, 
as whether the natives have traditions of movements of their 
own, or of the arrival of strangers among them. All that 
can be gathered respecting Dr. Cowan’s expedition will be 
acceptable in the highest degree. The elucidation also of 
an isolated effort to struggle through the difficulties of 
African travelling should also be kept in view; it was 
made by a Missionary of the name of Martin, who has not 
been heard of since he crossed the Colonial boundary in 
December, 1831. He is consequently supposed to have 
perished in the Gareep, or to have been destroyed on its 
banks, though, as it was his intention to avoid the esta- 
blishments of Europeans or their lines of communications, 
there is still a possibility of his surviving. 
The articles fitted for carrying on commerce with the 
natives have three distinct objects :—First, by keeping up a 
constant appearance of traffic, to present in their eyes an 
appreciable motive for this visit to their territory. Second, 
to conciliate favour, or to procure provisions for the purpose 
of husbanding the resources of the expedition. And third, 
for the purpose of procuring any profitable articles to carry 
on to the others district for the ends abovementioned, or to 
sell in the Colony at the termination of the enterprise. In 
regard to these the Committee has to remark, that attention 
to the two first-mentioned articles is indispensable, from its 
necessary connexion with the safety and efficiency of the 
expedition, and that the third is to be contingent on the 
acquisitions of the party in regard to its main object, of col- 
lecting information as to the country, and securing what 
illustrates its natural history and resources, and on the state 
of its means of transport. 
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