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CORRESPONDENCE RESPECTING 
Extract of a Letter from M. Delaportb, Vice- Consul 
administering the General Consulate of France at Tan- 
gier, to the Commander of the French naval station off 
Cadiz. 
Tangier, ISth September, 1828, 
M. Caillie, (Rene-Auguste) has undertaken the pain- 
ful and dangerous journey from the Senegal and Sierra- 
Leone to Tangier, passing through the city of Timbuctoo, 
and has had the good fortune to surmount all the diffi- 
culties, which, as you will judge, are inseparable from 
such an enterprise. 
Chance has thrown him upon an agent of his ma- 
jesty's government, and a member of the Geographical 
Society, upon me : I take the best possible care of him ; 
and feel pride in receiving a suffering fellow- citizen, the 
first European who has acquired for our country a know- 
ledge of the city of Timbuctoo, the search after which 
has cost so many lives, and so much treasure. 
M. Caillie presented himself to me under the costume 
of a mendicant Dervish, a character which I assure you 
he did not belie : during his journey he feigned himself 
a follower of Mahomet. If the Moors had suspected him 
of being with me, or at the consulate, he would have 
been a lost man; I entreat then, from your humanity, 
your love and admiration of great enterprises, assistance in 
saving this intrepid traveller, whose name will soon be- 
