2 OBJECT OF VISIT. 



of human life by protecting the divers from 

 the attacks of the sharks and mantas, (vora- 

 cious fish that infest those parts of the fishery 

 best adapted for yielding a good return,) 

 I wdis induced to visit the capital of Colom- 

 bia, for the purpose of securing an exclusive 

 privilege for this fishery, in consideration of 

 the expenses necessarily attending the adop- 

 tion of my suggestions. I determined, at 

 the same time, to examine into the resources 

 of the country, being persuaded that it 

 afforded extensive scope for commercial en- 

 terprise, and that by making known the 

 opportunities it offered, the interests of mer- 

 cantile and manufacturing industry would 

 be promoted, and an impulse given to the 

 developement of the internal wealth of a 

 country so long shut out from all commu- 

 nication with the world, arid debarred from 

 a just participation in social rights, by the 

 illiberal system of Spanish cupidity. I 

 found an additional motive to my explora- 



