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TRAVELS IN AFRICA. Chap. LXXXV. 
in establishing friendly relations with all the most 
powerful chiefs along the river up to that mysterious 
city itself. The whole of this was achieved, includ- 
ing the payment of the debts left by the former 
expedition, and 200/., which I contributed myself, 
with the sum of about 1600/. No doubt, even in 
the track which I myself pursued I have left a good 
deal for my successors in this career to improve upon ; 
but I have the satisfaction to feel that I have opened 
to the view of the scientific public of Europe a most 
extensive tract of the secluded African world, and 
not only made it tolerably known, but rendered the 
opening of a regular intercourse between Europeans 
and those regions possible. 
