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objects of your Commission ; you will request them to afford to 
you such information and advice as they can give towards assist- 
ing you in the accomplishment of those objects ; the substance of 
which information you will forward to this office, and you will 
preserve all written communications. 
5. You are at hberty to select at Sierra Leone, or at any part 
of the African continent, within the limit of your Commission, and 
to take with you, as volunteers, any native Africans, or persons of 
African descent, whom you may meet with there, and who, in 
your opinion, may be likely to be of use to you as interpreters, or 
otherwise, and who may be willing to accompany you on a fair 
and moderate remuneration, which you are hereby authorized to 
make to them for their services on this Commission, provided that 
such remuneration does not exceed the amount allowed in the 
Parliamentary Grant. 
6. On your arrival at Caj>e Coast Castle, you will deliver the 
accompanying letter to Mr. Maclean, the President of the Court 
of Magistrates of that settlement. You will explain to him the 
objects of your Commission, and you will obtain from him what 
information you can respecting the present state of those neigh- 
bouiing parts of Africa to which your Commission extends, 
particularly the Bights of Benin and Biafra, and respecting any 
other matters which may be of use to you towards the attainment 
of the objects of your Commission. 
7. In case you visit Fernando Po, you wall find that the gentle- 
men entrusted with the management of the concerns of the British 
Commercial establishment there, is in possession of an instruction 
from the West African Company, of which I annex a copy, and 
you will obtain from him what information you can for facilitating 
the objects of your Commission. 
8. Arrangements will be made by the Admiralty for the pur- 
pose of enabling you, on your arrival at the mouth of the Niger, 
to proceed with the least possible delay through the unhealthy 
marshes of the Delta, till you reach Eboe, where you will imme- 
diately commence operations, with the view to the execution of 
the principal objects of your Commission. From that point you 
will begin to visit as you proceed, and prosecute those objects 
with the several native chiefs in succession, up to the highest 
