PEOOEEDINGS 



OP 



THE ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY 

 OF LONDON. 



.SESSION 1859-60. 



Fourth Meeting i Monday, January 9th, 1860. 



The EAEL DE GEEY AND EIPON, President, in the Chair. 



Presentations. — Captain G. A. Bedford, r.n. ; Richard Cull ; John 

 P. Gassiot, jun. ; G. Gilbert- Heard ; and Lieut. A. W. Twyford, Esqrs.^ 

 were presented upon their election. 



Elections. — Sir Andrew Agnew, Bart., m.p. ; Captain Claude Clerk ; 

 the Hon. W. H. Forester Denison, m.p. ; Captain J. Hamilton Ward, 

 R.N. ; Edward Enfield ; H. Hamilton Lindsay ; C. Otter ; and J, 

 Fetherick, Esqrs., were elected Fellows. 



Accessions. — Among the accessions to the Library and Map 

 Eooms since the former meeting were a copy of Purchas' * Pil- 

 grimes,' in 5 vols., presented by John Crawfurd, Esq., f.r.g.s. ; 

 map, with views and sections, of the Kankasus and adjoining pro- 

 vinces, with book explanatory of the survey (in Eussian), by the 

 Chevalier de Baer, Hon. f.r.g.s. 



The Paper read was — 



Journey up the White Nile to the Equator, and Travels in the Interior of 

 Africa, in the years 1857-58. By J. Petherick, Esq., f.r.g.s., H.M.'s 

 Consul at Khartum. 



Mr. Petherick's first expedition was in 1853, to the extreme con- 

 fines of the Bahr el Ghazal, where his negro attendants refused to 

 proceed farther, and compelled him to return. 



The next year he took an armed force in two boats, and landed 

 where he had before turned back, and pushed overland into the 

 Djour country. There he left 25 men to form a trading esta- 

 blishment. 



Each succeeding year similar advances were made, and new 

 trading posts were founded. 



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