xix, xx] Ge lire. ) 
mentioned the unfortunate loss of the journals in which 
Burchell recorded a general account of his doings during the 
five years (1810-15) in Southern Africa and the five (1825- 
30) in Brazil. His classical work, “Travels in the Interior of 
Southern Africa,” does indeed give a complete record between 
November 26, 1810, and August 3, 1812,—the day on which 
he brought to a conclusion his first visit to Litakun, the 
capital of the Bachapins, in what is now British Bechuanaland. 
Mr. Mason, head-master of the Boys’ High School at Ronde- 
bosch, near Cape Town, who was present at the lecture, told 
Professor Poulton that a former pupil of his, named Burchell, 
had brought to school a diary written by an ancestor in St. 
Helena. Through Mr, Mason’s kind help Professor Poulton was 
put into communication with Mr. Francis A. Burchell, a grand- 
nephew of the great explorer, who has most kindly lent the 
deeply interesting note-book now exhibited to the Society. At 
the place where Burchell’s second volume comes to an end, the 
words “end of the 2nd volume” are written in pencil in the 
margin. Beyond this point one month of the lost records are 
here restored to us, from August 3 to September 2, 1812. 
Furthermore even in the period covered by the published work 
there are many statements of the deepest interest to us which 
Burchell withheld. For the first time we are made acquainted 
with the day and month of his birth. It is believed—but there 
is no certainty—that he was born in the year 1782. July 
23, 1812, was a day of great anxiety and trouble. Among his 
attendants was a man named Cornelis, of Hottentot and 
Dutch parentage. Cornelis had been unsatisfactory and 
useless from the day of his engagement when he presented 
himself ‘‘in a state of complete intoxication,” and now in the 
midst of the Bachapin capital, Litakun, then visited for the 
first time by a European, he broke out into open rebellion, and 
Burchell was compelled, buckling on his pistols and cutlass, 
personally to enforce obedience. The published account ends 
with the words :—“ Thus ended one of the most turbulent days 
which I had experienced since the commencement of my 
journey.” (“Travels,” vol. ii, London, 1824, p. 462.) The 
manuscript journal, however, concludes the day with the 
following personal details omitted from the second volume :— 
