Excerpt from The New Monthly Magazine, 1862, Vol. 126 That which applies to Natal also naturally applies itself, with slight exceptions of detail as to soil and other circumstances, to many other points on the eastern coast of Africa and to neighbouring countries, as Mada gasear, the Mauritius, Bourbon, Zanzibar, &c. The cotton on the Zam besi is upland cotton, and the cotton plantations of the Mauritius, which once enjoyed a well-earned celebrity, are, according to Mr. Pridham (england's Colonial Empire - The Mauritius, p. In but a sad condition. Cotton, it appears, superseded coffee, and the latter was superseded by indigo, the cultivation of which became most popular. All these countries are in the same transition state as the western coast of Africa not only is slavery prohibited, but every difficulty is put in the way of obtaining free black labour, hence the tricks of shipowners, the affair of the Charles and Georges, and the constant misunderstandings that are daily arising in these seas between the Portuguese, the French, and the natives and the English. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.