1835] 



Expedition into Central Africa. 



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consequently supposed to have perished in the Gariep, or to have 

 been destroyed on its banks, though, as it was his intention to avoid 

 the establishments of Europeans or their lines of communications, 

 there is a lingering possibility of his still 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 foi- this visit 

 to their territory. Second, to concilate favour, or to procure provi- 

 sions 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 other districts 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 

 objects is indispensable, from its necessary connection with the safety 

 andefl[iciency of the Expedition, and that the third is to be contingent 

 on the acquisitions of the party in regard to its main object of collect- 

 ing information as to the country, and securing what illustrates its 

 natural history and resources, and on the state of its means of tran- 

 sport. The Committee therefore recommend that this third object 

 be attended to only in case that it be necessary to send waggons back 

 for supplies, or in case that in the homeward progress of the party 

 there be room for such articles without incommoding it in its other 

 operations. 



(Signed) 



THOMAS WADE, Chairman. 



J. HERSCHELL, 



A. OLIPHANT, 



JAMES ADAMSON, J). D. 



T. M'LEAR, 



A. J. CLOETE, 



C. F. H. VON LUDWIG, 



F. S. WATERMEYER, 



JOHN CENTLIVRES CHASE, 



Hon. Segretart, 



June 23d, 1834. 



