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strongor temptation to cupidity than any thing I possessed. 
When wo get beyond the hostile population mentioned, we 
roach a very different raco. On tho latter my chief hopes 
at present rest. All of them, however, aro willing and 
anxious to engago in trade, and, while eager for this, none 
have over been encouraged to cultivate tho raw materials 
of commcrco. Their country is well adapted for cotton; 
and I venturo to entertain tho hopo that by distributing 
soeds of better kinds than that which is found adigenous, 
and stimulating tho natives to cultivate it by affording 
them tho certainty of a market for all they may produce, 
wo may engender a feeling of mutual dependence between 
them and ourselves. I have a twofold object in view, and 
beliovo that, by guiding our missionary labors so as to 
benefit our own country, wo shall thereby more effectually 
and permanently benefit the heathen. Seven years were 
spent at Ivolobeng in instructing my friends there; but, tho 
country being incapable of raising materials for exportation, 
when the Boers made thoir murderous attack and scattoxod 
tho tribo for a season, none sympathized except a few 
Christian friends. Had tho peoplo of Kolobong been in 
the habit of raising tho raw materials of English commerce, 
the outrago would have been folt in England; or, what is 
moro likely to havo been tho case, tho people would have 
raised themselves in tho scale by barter, and havo become, 
like tho Basutos of Hoshcsh and peoplo of Kuruman, pos- 
sessed of fire-arms, and tho Boers would nover have mado 
the attack at all. Wo ought to cncourago tho Africans to 
cultivate for our markets, as the most effectual means, next 
to tho gospel, of their olovation. 
It is in the hope of working out this idea that I propose 
tho formation of stations on tho Zambesi beyond the Por 
tuguoso territory but having communication through them 
''vith tho coast. A chain of stations admitting of easy and 
speedy intercourse, such as might be formed along tho flank 
of the eastern ridgo, would bo in a favorable position fox 
carrying out tho objects in view Tho London Missionary 
