16 Address of Sir R. I. Murchison 
the country receive him ! and how rejoiced will your President 
be, if he lives, to preside over as grand a Livingstone festival 
as he did when this noble and lion-hearted traveller was about 
to depart on his second great expedition. 
The party which I have announced as. about to proceed to 
Eastern Africa to procure accurate information concerning Liv- 
ingstone, will be commanded by Mr. E. D. Young, who did ex- 
cellent service in the former Zambesi expedition, in the man- 
agement of the Lady Nyassa river-boat. With him will be 
associated Mr. Henry Faulkner, a young volunteer of great 
promise, and two acclimatised men, one a mechanic and the 
othera seaman. The expedition, Iam happy to say, is warmly 
supported by Her Majesty’s Government, and the building of 
the boat is rapidly progressing under the orders of the Board 
of Admiralty. The boat will be a sailing one, made of steel, 
and built in pieces, no one of which will weigh more than 
50 Ibs., so that the portage of the whole by natives past the 
cataracts of the Shiré will be much faciliated. The Govern- 
ment have arranged for the transport of the party to the Cape, 
with the boat and stores, by the African mail-steamer on the 
9th of next month.* Arrived there, one of our cruisers will 
take them to the Luabo mouth of the ‘Zambesi, where the 
boat will be put together, and the party—having engaged a 
crew of negroes—will be 1 
rd 
he great services rendered to Geography by the enlichtened 
Governor of the French possessions on the Senegal Dolotal 
Faidherbe, who has greatly extended our knowledge of the 
ountry along the banks of that river. The most advanced 
post of the French is’ Medine, near the cataracts of Felou, 600 
miles from the mouth, up to which point the river is navigable 
during the rainy months, for vessels drawing 12 fect of water. 
With a view to ascertaining the political condition of the 
countries beyond the eastern frontier, as also to fix accurately 
the geographical positions of places between the Upper Sene- 
___ * To the credit of the Union Steam Packet Company the boat has been taken 
- that the party sailed from Plymouth on the 1th instante dew tarieey, | a 
