DIIDICATION. xr^ 
lure has beftowed her choiceft favours. This 
portion of Africa is fairly open to the gov- 
ernment of the Cape, provided the native's 
can be induced to confent to the eflablifh- 
rnent of European coloniits, and their ac- 
quiefcence could be foon obtained, by gifts 
of little value to the donor, and their ?Jle« 
giance fecured by a kind and liberal treat- 
ment in the courfe of their riegociations* The 
country, once eftablifiied on tKcfe princi- 
ples, would foon become productive, and 
iiltimately prove of more value to the Bri- 
tifli empire, than all. tfieir settlements 
IN THE EAST AND WEST INDIES PUT TOGE- 
THER. I know. Sir, this will be conudered 
&s a bold alTertion ; but it arifes from a pc- 
litive convidion in my mind ; and there- 
fore I deliver it as an opinion, which has 
been the refult of general obfervation and 
enquiry. 
In treating of the fouthern continent of 
Africa, I cannot, however, fubfciibe to the 
reports of fome pretended travellers, who 
have reprefented the %vbole of thefe region 3 
as. highly prolific. 1 underftand this is not 
the cafe. In the countries of the Little and 
Great Na?niquots^ Kabobiquois^ ILiizouanas^ r. 
which either fmrt or are contiguous to the 
weftern coaft, there are fandy deferts of con- 
fiderable extent ; but there are likewife im- 
menfe plains of the fineft pafturage ; and it 
is generally fuppofed, from what has been 
already gathered on the naargin of thetr 
