142 TiMEHRI. 



Minutes of Court of Policy, May 2nd, 1838. 

 To Edward Bishop, jr. Esq., 

 Georgetown. 



Dear Sir, — I beg leave to enclose for your perusal the 

 letter of Mr. SCHOMBURGK from the Upper Essequebo 

 of which I spoke to you last week. His first letter to 

 me on the present expedition was dated Quitaro, in 

 north latitude 2^ 50' and 58" west longitude the 13th 

 Nov. 1837, being then on the eve of his departure thence 

 to the Sources of the Essequebo. By the present you 

 will see that, after many difficulties and hardships, he 

 reached the obje6l of his immediate plan on the 27th 

 Dec. last at a distance of about 41 English miles north 

 of the Equator. His Chart and Journal, which will be 

 published like the former ones by the Geographical 

 Society, will show the exaft latitude and longitude there- 

 of, which he ascertained astronomically like all the prin- 

 cipal points and bearings of the course of this magnifi- 

 cent river. 



His next proceeding, after getting possession of the 

 supplies, for which he sent to Town last month from the 

 mouth of the Rupununy, will be towards the sources of 

 the Orinoco, where he hopes to continue the discoveries 

 of the celebrated Baron Humboldt, who on a late 

 occasion has dire6led the attention of the Geographical 

 world to the progress and exertion of this spirited and 

 persevering traveller. 



The interest you took the other day in my verbal 

 relation, and the sympathy you expressed for his suffer- 

 ings and losses, induce me on the present occasion to 

 address you in your quality of Vice-President to our 

 Financial Body, in the hope that you will exert your 



