JOURNAL OF THE PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON. 
Letter from Mr. G. Many, Government Botanist, describing his 
Expedition to the Cameroon Mountains. Communicated by 
Sir W. J. Hooxzz, F.R.S., F.L.S., &c. 
[Read June 5, 1862.] 
Srm,—I have the honour to transmit to you a Report upon my 
expedition to the Cameroon Mountains, and at the same time to 
advise you that the collections which I made there are shipped to 
England in the same steamer that brings this letter. 
I left Fernando Po on the 4th December, 1861, about 2 r.w., 
in a boat which I had anxiously awaited for a week. As soon as 
we had left the harbour and sailed round Point William, we were 
favoured by a strong sea-breeze, and reached Cape Horatio before 
sunset; whence we steered towards Ambas Bay, and, shortly be- 
fore night set in, saw the Cameroons rising from the sea, and 
losing themselves in the clouds. Soon after 8 r.m. the islands in 
Ambas Bay came in sight, and after passing the first (Mondori 
Island), the sails were taken in, and the anchor let go. On the 
next day we reached the anchoring-place at 8 a.m., when I imme- 
diately landed. On landing I was received by my old host, and 
on reaching the house of the Rev. Mr. Saker, was informed he was 
at the Cameroons ; but I received permission to keep the goods, 
which I had brought for barter, in the magazine of the mission. 
The place was as I found it a year before. 
In the latter half of the day, I was much refreshed by the con- 
stant sea-breeze, which in Fernando Po we seldom enjoy, and 
LINN, PROC.— BOTANY, VOL. VIT. B 
