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aimm of Livingotono, " (1)
An initial capital of £901000
was subscribed largely from Scotland$ The Company wes
managed in Africa by two brothers J. W. and F. L. N. Moir, and
in Scotland by the chairman of the Company Janen Stevenson.
In its attitudea the Company wan inaepi rabie from the
Scottiah miasione. At Blantyre therm was also a firm
of planters, the Buchamman Brothers, aboo Ccottieh.
T12a commercial paacibiUtie® were utremo in 1889
when the-African Lackes Company vas thinking, of applying
for a charter on the pattern of the tiger and Eat African
Cor panien Captain Lugard who had helpod the Company
fight the Arabs, gave a paper to the British Association
listing the products of I1yacaland as mineral., ivory, oil
need and plautation crops such arg coffeo# tea and cloves.
There wore also possibilities , for uropotno to live on the
higher land,
(2)
Thera bad been one or two ouggestiotto
for ecooonia exploitation of the z'eton; in May 188.59 for
examples the Foreign Office received a request from a David
Lindcoy, who wished to puchnoe land near the Usambara mission
of the U, tz. C, Ao to cultivate coffee* teas cocoa and cinchona
(1) W. P. Livin ; atone, Li va Of Li. vinrntonii , ßa. 20
(2) Lurrrd P ZS* Phoäo Itou o Library, Oxford,
,5 Nynnnland,
Speech by Luga, rd 13th Coptorber 1889, Zoe also
Lumgrd to Laws* 5ýh January 1890.