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them, as also to the paramount Chief, Panda, 
and his tribes, the Bishop of Natal, and his 
Missionaries of the Church of England, have 
now gone. The capabilities of the colony are 
being daily developed by the settlers. Sugar 
mills are rising on the various estates, and 
the extended cultivation of it, together with 
coffee, indigo, arrowroot, and pine-apples, is in- 
creasing: thus it bids fair to be ere long, a 
prosperous and very productive colony. The 
bay and harbour are admirably situated for 
the shelter of shipping, and, as the local re- 
venues of the place become more permanent 
and extensive, the rise of more commodious 
piers and stores, and the establishment of other 
public buildings and institutions, will tend to 
advance the stability of the place, and the se- 
curity of its inhabitants and their property. 
The permanent establishment of two such 
states, as Natal and the Dutch Trans- Vaal 
Free State, cannot but be regarded as of vast 
importance, towards aiding in the exploration 
of the vast interior of the continent, as well as 
tending to extend a wider commercial inter- 
course with the native tribes. Let us hope 
that they may be, not only thus the pioneers of 
commerce, civilization, and research in South- 
ern Africa, but also the precursors of the rays 
of that brighter light of Christianity, which 
