XU PROPOSAL. 



traced on my map, a copy of which you are aware 

 I had also the honour of forwarding to the Secretary 

 of the Royal Geographical Society from Cape Town 

 in October last, it would be a needless trespass on 

 the Bombay Society's time were I here to enlarge 

 on the subject; I shall therefore simply state that 

 the map includes a section of Southern Africa, 

 hitherto either imperfectly described or entirely un- 

 known, and was compiled during my expedition 

 from personal observation, and from authentic in- 

 formation afforded by missionaries and intelligent 

 traders, upon whose accuracy I could rely. 



I beg, however, particularly to solicit the atten- 

 tion of the Society, to the fact of my having pene- 

 trated to a spot which was described as being not 

 more than six weeks' or two months' journey from 

 that great Inland Lake, the actual existence of 

 which, between the Equator and the Tropic of 

 Capricorn, was first satisfactorily established by Dr. 

 Smith's expedition in 1835 — and that every cir- 

 cumstance conspiring to favour the successful con- 

 tinuation of my journey, I was only deterred from 

 making the attempt to reach that remarkable point 



