454 REPORT ON CAILLlf:'S TRAVELS, 
upon them. It now remains for us to make known some 
of the results obtained, in order that the Society may ap- 
preciate the acquisitions that have accrued to science. 
We are not at liberty here to enter into minute detail ; 
that would be anticipating the publication. A general 
retrospect is all that the committee consider themselves 
called upon to offer at present to the public curiosity. 
The travels of M. Caillie are connected, in a man- 
ner the most useful for perfecting and confirming our 
geographical knowledge, with those of Watt and Winter- 
bottom to Timbo, in 1T94 ; of Major Laing in the coun- 
tries of Kouranko and Soulimana, in 1822 ; of M. 
Mollien in Fouta-Dhialon, in 1818; of Mungo Park to 
theDhioliba, in 1795 and 1805, of Dochard to Yamina 
and Bamakou, in 1819 3 lastly with the itinera- 
ries of the caravans, travelling from Timbuctoo to Ta- 
filet. 
No doubts can now remain of the very elevated sources 
of the Bafiijg, the principal tributary of the Senegal. 
Setting out on the 19th of April 1827 from Kakondy, 
the tomb of Majors Peddie and Campbell, M. Caillie 
crossed this river at Bafila ; he crossed also the main stream 
of the Dhioliba at a point which very naturally connects 
itself with the situation assigned by Major Laing to its 
source. Thence he proceeded to Kankan, a large town 
in the district so named, enriched by the gold mines 
of Bourre, aud after some residence there, he continued 
his journey two hundred miles farther east, beyond 
