452 REPORT ON CAILLIE'S TRAVELS. 
St. Louis^ and of his arrival the following year at Kakon- 
dy^ whence he sent intelligence to the Senegal of his de- 
parture for the interior. Thus the point of his departure 
is proved : it is the same with the point of his arrival, 
since he was received, almost immediately on issuing 
from the desert, by our colleague M. Delaporte, vice- 
consul-general at Tangier. With regard to Timbuctoo, 
besides the very circumstantial details related by our 
traveller, and the sketches which he took during his stay, 
we have a guarantee of another kind in his account of the 
catastrophe of the unfortunate Major Laing, who had 
reached this city in 1826. Notwithstanding the variety 
of rumours relative to this melancholy event, M. Caillie's 
story agrees with that of a Moor who arrived at Saint- 
Louis in March last, coming from Timbuctoo, and who 
saw amongst the Touariks the books which had belonged 
to the Major. Moreover, our countryman resided in a 
neighbouring house to that which had been occupied by 
the English traveller, and there obtained exact information, 
the source of which seems to be incontestable. 
The committee is enabled to add further reasons 
for confidence to the preceding. During the earlier part 
of his travels^ that is, while advancing eastward across 
the mountains of Fouta-Dhialon, he passed between the 
towns of Timbo and Labey, and consequently must have 
intersected the route followed in 1818 by our colleague 
M. Mollien. Now, such is his description of the moun- 
tains, the villages, the aspect of the country, and all 
the localities, thatM. Mollien perfectly recognised them in 
