112 REPORTS BY CAPTAINS BURTON AND SPEKE [Jan. 24, 1859. 



Wo are slowly improving, and the thought of finishing our 

 labors with what we hope will be considered most valuable 

 results has much diminished the terrible wear and tear of mind 

 caused by wants during our journey westwards. Our asses, 30 in 

 number, all died ; our porters ran away ; our goods were left 

 behind; our black escort became so unmanageable as to require 

 dismissal ; the weakness of our party invited attacks, and our 

 wretched Balochi deserted us in the jungle, and throughout have 

 occasioned an infinity of trouble. 



We deeply regret that the arrangements for the expedition were 

 not upon a more liberal scale. With 5000/. we might, I believe, 

 without difficulty, have spanned Africa from east to west. How- 

 ever, the similarity of the two coasts and the accounts of travellers 

 who have penetrated the western regions lead to the conclusion 

 that the other half of the great continent just reflects the portions 

 of which we hope to lay before you exactest details. 



H. M. the Prince *' Majid," and his native and Indian officials, 

 have taken the greatest interest in our progress, and we have 

 reason to be truly grateful to them. They were also urged on by 

 the Consul de France, M. Ladislas Cochet, who, after Lieut.- 

 Colonel Hamerton's unfortunate decease, has proved himself an 

 active and en.ergetic friend. 



Your most obedient servant, 



EicHD. F. Burton, Captain Bombay Army, 



Commanding E. A. Expedition. 

 To Dr. Norton Shaw. 



Unyanyembe, 2nd July, 1858. 



Sir, — I have the honour to request you will lay the accompanying 

 map and field-book before the President and Council of the Royal 

 Geographical Society. 1 send a plan of the whole route, as far as 

 we have gone, on a diminished scale, as it is a safer means of con- 

 veying our entire work to you than by sending portions at a time, 

 as I have hitherto been obliged to do. My office-copy, of course, is 

 kept on the original scale, or the same size as the four sheets I sent 

 you from the 20th November, 1857, 



Whilst at the Lake Ujiji, I paid a visit to Kasenge Island, in the 

 hopes of procuring an Arab boat, and had then the opportunity of 

 seeing those two points south of it, Ukungwe and Tembwe, on its 

 east and west shores. I was informed that the sea broadened a good 

 deal to the south of these points, and finally turned off" with a tail 

 to the west. The distance from Kabogo to Kasenge (across the 



