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presents from his excellency, which Radama gratefully 
received as the gifts of his father, meriting his peculiar 
care and grateful thanks. 
Having made the king acquainted with that part of the 
governor’s orders which related to the Missionaries and 
artisans, Mr. Hastie obtained permission to introduce to 
his notice the four young men of the latter class, who had 
arrived at the capital; and after explaining to the king 
their individual and united pursuits, he obtained, for the 
use of Mr. Jeffreys and his family, a good house, in a large 
enclosure, and two servants to assist in the domestic duties 
of his family. The king granted also to the artisans a piece 
of land, in a situation extremely well adapted for the pur¬ 
poses of carrying forward their respective objects. A ser¬ 
vant was also allowed to each, on condition that eight youths 
should be instructed by them in their several trades, and 
thus enabled to extend to the nation at large the know¬ 
ledge which the Europeans were anxious to impart. 
The king also placed under the orders of the two 
German botanists, ten labourers and two boys, requesting 
these gentlemen to take charge of his garden during their 
stay at the capital, and enclose any piece of land which 
they deemed eligible for the purpose, in order to show 
him a specimen of the system they wished to introduce 
in the cultivation of indigenous productions, and the plants 
and seeds brought into the country. 
Ever watchful over the welfare of Radama, and solicitous 
for his and his people’s good, the British agent could not 
help entertaining some suspicions that the military expe¬ 
dition for which the king was now preparing, might lead to 
the violation of the laws he had lately promulgated for the 
prevention of plunder, and injustice of every description. 
He had therefore repeatedly represented to Radama, that 
