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and boys, all anxious to seize him and deliver him 
to his master, to obtain the reward. 
My sympathies certainly begin to cool when I 
see the conduct of these blacks to one another. The 
blacks are, in truth, the real active men-stealers, 
though incited thereto frequently by the slave- 
merchants of the north and south. It must be 
confessed, that if there were no white men from the 
north or south to purchase the supply of slaves 
required out of Africa, slavery would still flourish, 
though it might be often in a mitigated form ; and 
this brings me to the reiteration of my opinion, 
that only foreign conquest by a power like Great 
Britain or France can really extirpate slavery from 
Africa. 
3d. — The sky never gets clear here till late at 
night. I read several pieces of Milton's poetry. 
I went to the gardens to see the wells : people 
fetch water from the wells of the gardens, where 
the supply is sufficiently abundant. I observed 
in the gardens the henna plant, the cotton plant, 
the indigo plant, and the tobacco plant. All 
these appear to be commonly cultivated in the 
gardens of Zinder. There are scarcely any other 
vegetables but onions, and beans, and tomatas ; 
but the people cultivate a variety of small herbs, for 
making the sauce of their bazeens and other flour- 
puddings. The castor-oil tree is found in the town 
and in the hedges of the gardens in abundance. 
A Tuarick woman was brought here to-day for 
