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between the two races, and it becomes a matter 
of importance to consider what measures are 
requisite in order to its removal. 
" I am also of opinion that the great numerical 
superiority of the native population, located as 
they are in the midst of the Europeans, is the 
cause of such uneasiness as to urge the necessity 
of their being removed. On the other hand, 
the natives are also distrustful of the whites. 
" I must here state, however, that I cannot 
concur in the opinion given by several of the 
witnesses in their plans for removing them. I 
believe that war would be the inevitable result 
of such a proceeding, therefore I could only fall 
in with any plan of which the Government ap- 
prove, subject to the opinion of the diplomatic 
agent as to how far such plan would be accept- 
able to those tribes proposed to be removed, and 
that thus safety might be ensured. 
" There appears to me no other mode of avoid- 
ing a collision with the natives, than that to 
which I have alluded; and also the introduction of 
emigrants in sufficient numbers to act as a counter- 
poise to the numerical superiority of the natives, 
and, at the same time, dispossess them of the belief 
that they are able to contend with us. 
"From time immemorial, hunting and war 
have been regarded as the chief pursuits of the 
native tribes of Africa, 
