458 REPORT ON CAILLIE'S TRAVELS. 
been hoped for with such resources, and he has the satis- 
faction of having completely succeeded. 
If such services are calculated to ensure to M, Caillie 
the favour of the public and of the government, how 
powerfully ought they to excite the interest and gratitude 
of the Geographical Society ! It was by the Society's 
programme y published in 1824, that he was finally deter- 
mined to penetrate into the interior of an unknown conti- 
nent. One of our members^ being then resident in Se - 
negal, and finding that he had been for several years 
animated by a passion for travels, communicated to him a 
copy of this programme ; during the three succeeding 
years M. Caillie incessantly exerted every possible effort, 
till he had discovered the means of accomplishing his 
adventurous design. This is attested by a witness most 
worthy of credit, our colleague Baron Roger, at that time 
governor of Senegal. During this period M. Caillie 
quitted Saint Louis, visited several neighbouring districts, 
and then fixed on the Rio-Nunez as the point for his de - 
parture; at Kakondy he was fortunate enough to meet with 
a caravan setting out for the interior, and he skilfully 
seized the favourable opportunity. 
The programme published by the Society in 1824 
consists of two parts. The first principally requires ac- 
curate particulars respecting Timbuctoo, and the rivers 
near it, with notices of the eastern countries. M. Caillie 
has performed most of these conditions. The second part. 
