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Dr. Welwitsch's labours were remunera ted by the Government who al- 

 lowed him £ 4i monthly during the stay at Angola, £ 22 during that at 

 Lisbon and £ 60 during that at London. To this we must add a first out- 

 lay of £ 267, summing up a total of nearly £ 6.355 or Rs. 28:600^0. 

 When official relations wlth the Government were desired to be resu- 

 med, the sum of £ 60 was further allowed to Dr. Welwitsch after a 

 promise of return to Lisbon, for which the collections, books and other 

 objects were actualy packed up in London ready for the voyage. But, 

 on the other hand his salary from Dec. 1865 lo Jan. 1866 not having 

 been paid up to the time that the order of suspension was issued, 

 and making a total of £ 120, it is clear that a sum of £ 60 but no 

 more was due to Dr. Welwitsch, contrary to what has been errone- 

 ously asserted on this head. This is quite an insignificant sum, as re- 

 gards the total salaries received, which could but be considered as 

 an arrear of payment which would have promptly disappeared had 

 Dr. Welwitsch^ as it was hoped, arrived in a short time at Lisbon. 

 (V. Affidavit of Miguel de Bulhões, the note of payments made to Dr. 

 Welwitsch during his commission, ordered according to lhe said clerk, 

 chief accountant at the marine office, and the order for returning to 

 Lisbon dated 22 Oct. 1870, acompaning the payment of the £ 60 

 (Doe. n.° 13). Dr. Welwitsch was not dependent only upon these 

 means during the long period of his labours. He found in Angola ali 

 necessary aid, not only from the authorities, but also from private 

 persons who promptly and generously helped him. As far as is known 

 from olher expeditions we may assert that no one was more amply as- 

 sisted and few so much as he was. And it must be acknowledged that i6 

 is lo the ample means and time thus allowed lo Dr. Welwitsch that we 

 owe the most valuable material he succeeded in collecting in a coun- 

 try so htlle accessible to Europeans, and where the Portuguese occupa 

 lion has been and is still of great use in aiding such foreign travellers as 

 attempt lo explore the interior. 



After the inlerruption of official intercourse with the Government 

 Dr. Welwitsch desired to reeslabhsh it, and wrote to me for this pur- 

 pose. I advised him to wrile to the Minister of lhe Colonial Departement, 

 in whom he would find every inclination to atlend to his escuses, as soon 

 as he showed himself ready to do what had been ordered him, and 

 return to Lisbon with his collections; every Ihing else being done 

 on bolh sides in order to hasten the publications which were needed 

 to spread a knowledge in the country of the results of the expedilion. 

 Upon his private promise of so doing an order for his returning to Lis- 



