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NOTE. 



And whilst under IT. H. Abbas Pasha a large 

 and complete Egypto-European expedition was, 

 after the old fashion, organized to ascend the 

 stream, 6 ad investigandum caput Nili ' (Seneca, 

 Nat. Quasst. vi. 8), the new and practicable route 

 from the Zanzibar coast seemed to have been 

 clean forgotten. 



During this lull we landed, as the reader has 

 been told in the last chapter, upon the African 

 isle 6 Menouthias.' 



NOTE. 



I may be excused in here alluding to an as- 

 sertion often repeated by the c Geographer of 

 N'gassi,' in his Memoir on the 6 Lake Regions of 

 East Africa reviewed ' (London, Stanford, 1864). 

 He makes me c the easy dupe of the most trans- 

 parent personal hostility, which wore the respect- 

 able mask of the Royal Geographical Society,' 

 and he assures me that I left England 'indoc- 

 trinated ' as to what lake or lakes I should find 

 in Central Africa, and so forth. 



This fretfulness of mortified vanity would not 

 have been noticed by me had it not been so un- 

 fair to the Royal Geographical Society. In the 

 preface of my Memoir (pp. 4 — 8, Journal Royal 

 Geographical Society, vol. xxix.), I was careful 

 to print all the instructions of the Expedi- 

 tionary Committee, and I only regretted that 

 they were not more detailed. It is absurd to as- 



