PROFESSOR WAHLBERG. 



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infancy, and strong in nervous temperament, 

 carrying little flesh and comparatiyely abstemious, 

 would be the best of African explorers, and my 

 subsequent experiences on the west coast of 

 Africa in the Bights of Benin and Biafra, from 

 Cape Palmas to the Gaboon riyer, haye confirmed 

 the belief. Major Cotheal's exploration, how- 

 ever, was fated to remain in limbo. 



An expedition was also proposed at the 

 Cape of Good Hope on a plan recommended by 

 the lamented naturalist, Professor Wahlberg. 

 Several was^orons startins^ simultaneously would 

 separate upon the threshold of the trojoics, and, 

 after exploring eastward and westward, would 

 rendezvous at a given place, and confer upon the 

 ways and means of further advance. Nothing ap- 

 peared more feasible than such a prospect, and the 

 brilliant success of Messrs Livingstone, Murray, 

 and Oswell, then fresh in the public mind, had 

 proved that intertropical Africa could be pene- 

 trated with less fatigue and risk of disease from 

 the Cape than from any other point. Dr "Wahl- 

 berg, however, was killed by an elephant, and his 

 plan was allowed to lie in nubibus. 



We left for the interior before Zanzibar 

 Island was visited by the Pere Leon d'Avanchers, 

 whose name has since become familiar to geo- 



