IN CENTRAL AFRICA. 3G3 
he had beforehand in a great measure replied. The very 
day of his arrival he submitted to my inspection a journal 
of his travels complete^ and continued from the 19th of 
April 1827 to the 21st of September 1828^ modestly ob- 
serving : " I do not know whether I can answer all your 
questions, but here are my notes/' He then shewed me 
part of the original notes, written in pencil, on the spot, 
and the narrative written and completed during his resi- 
dence at Tangier and in quarantine, though suffering under 
a high fever. He also shewed me the pieces of cord with which 
he had measured the meridian shadow at Timbuctoo and in 
other places, some fragments of plants brought from the 
interior, the vocabularies, and some simple sketches of 
the town of Timbuctoo. If after such testimony I could 
retain any doubts, the construction of all the routes of 
the traveller, which 1 drew up on the following day, would 
have effectually dispelled them, for I discovered that the 
observations were continued without any interruption, and 
that the whole produced a result agreeing with the data 
already acquired. 
It remained that the learned Geographical Society 
should share my conviction, an additional success for 
which M. Caillie had not long to wait 3* and he obtained 
a brilliant recompense which he had amply merited. This 
* On the 8th of October he arrived in France, five months after 
his departure from Timbuctoo ; from this time the period of his com- 
