xxlv ' DEDICATION. 
ing theix' friendfliips. I can forefee, that oh 
the eaftern and vveftern coafts, fettlers from 
England wiilbe eilablifiied, and the natives 
treated with more humanity and policy than 
what they have hitherto experienced. If by 
any chance, the Weft-India iflands iliould 
belofttothem, or any natural convulfion 
of the feafons render them for a certain time 
unproduftive, the Britifli fettlements in Af- 
rica might amply fnpply the deficiency, and 
rheir markets of rum and fugar be univer- 
fally fupported* Corn, fruits of ail kinds, 
Ikins of various denominations, ivory, tor- 
toife fhell, oftrich feathers, and many other 
articles, that would give their trade a won- 
derful augmentation, might be all had from 
ihefe parts. 
The advantages arillng from the poiTeffion 
of the Cape, and thofe which might be de- 
rived from colonizing the fouthern part of 
the African continent, are fully underftood 
at this time by the Engliili and French gov- 
ernments. This was clearly manifefted in 
the courfe of the negociation which took 
place at Paris, early in the fummer of the 
prefent year. When Lord Malmjhury^ who 
was the plenipotentiary on the part of Eng- 
land, came to difcufs that part of his million 
which refpefted the Cape of Good Hope, he 
llrenuoufly infifted on this fettlemcnt being 
ceded to the crown of England. De la Croix ^ 
who acted in a fimilar manner on the part 
of the French republic, as ftrongly infifted 
