APPENDIX. 
No. 1. 
Some particulars of the Expedition lately dispatched from Cape Town, 
Cape of Good Hope, for the purpose of exploring Central Africa. 
—Account of the Progress of Discovery in South Africa, up to 
the period of the departure of the Expedition. 
Wiruin the last few years a vast fund of information has 
been obtained, relative to the country lying to the north 
and east of Litakou, from the various trading parties who 
have from time to time succeeded in exploring those regions 
which have so long lain as a blank on all our Maps of 
Southern Africa. 
A party, under the direction of Messrs. Hume and Mul- 
ler, returned to the colony in 1833, after having been 
absent nearly two years, during which period they suc- 
ceeded in penetrating to the tropic; and from the favourable 
descriptions given of the country and its productions, a 
party of gentlemen, members of the South African Literary 
and Scientific Institution, were induced to form an associa- 
tion in Cape Town, under the patronage of his Excellency 
Sir Lowry Cole, then Governor of the Cape, for the purpose 
of sending a scientific expedition to- explore those regions, 
with the object of elucidating their geography, the nature 
of their productions, and the advantages they might offer to 
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