REPORT ON CAILLIE'S TRAVELS. 451 
REPORT OF THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE APPOINTED TO 
INVESTIGATE M. CAILLIE'S TRAVELS TO TIMBUCTOO 
AND IN THE INTERIOR OF AFRICA. 
Gentlkmen, 
You have appointed a committee, consisting of 
Messrs. Eyries, Cadet de Metz, Amedee Jaubert, La- 
renaudiere. Baron Roger, and myself, to ascertain the 
facts resulting from the travels of M. Auguste Caillie in 
the interior of Africa. This committee has assembled, and 
I am charged by it to make you the following report. 
Our first care vras to satisfy ourselves on the points of the 
traveller's departure, the routes which he had followed, 
and the countries and places which he had visited. In- 
terrogated on these various questions, and on all the cir- 
cumstances of his travels, he replied in the clearest and 
most satisfactory manner. The committee is struck with 
the tone of simplicity and sincerity which reigns through- 
out his narrative, and which will not admit a doubt of the 
reality and authenticity of his different excursions ; namely 
the crossing of the Dhioliba, his route to the east of the 
districts of Soulimana and Kissi, his navigation on the 
great river, his residence at Timbuctoo, and his journey 
across the great desert to the empire of Morocco. Ba- 
ron Roger had positive information of his departure from 
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