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officer, who is directed to give it, provided it can be done with- 
out interfering with the duties on which they are employed, or 
inconvenience to Her Majesty’s service. 
Given under our hands this 22nd day of April, 1841. 
Minto. 
T. Troubridge. 
To Henry Dundas Trotter, Esq., 
Captain of Hm' Majesty^ s sUam-vessel, ^Albert, 
on arrival at Plymouth . 
command of their Lordships, 
Jno. Barrow. 
To the Chiefs and People of Africa. 
Listen to what we have to say. The Queen of England is a 
great Sovereign, and has sent us to offer you her friendship, and 
to talk with you as friends and brothers about the way to be- 
come wise and rich and powerful. 
You know that the great God made all nations of the earth 
of one blood. White people are Christians, and worship this 
great God. They can do many things which black people can- 
not doj and they have almost everything that black people 
want: clothes, ornaments, tools, and useful articles of every 
kind. Some of these things we have brought with us to the 
Great Water, or Kawara, to show you what we mean ; and any- 
thing else you desire can be sent you another time. 
But for such things as these you must give us something of 
yours in exchange. You have been used to sell slaves for some 
of these things. But it is contrary to the laws of God and of 
white men to buy them of you, though some white men have 
been wicked enough to do so. Now you live in a country where 
everything grows very quickly out of the ground, and these 
are the things which we want. They will also bring you much 
more profit than slaves. 
You must dig the ground, and raise cotton trees, indigo, 
