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CORRESPONDENCE RESPECTING 
Extract of a Letter from M. Delaporte Vice Consul of 
France to M. Jomard Member of the Institute, 
Tangier, 27tli September, 1828. 
M. Caillie whose name I have read in one of the 
numbers of the Bulletins of the Geographical Society^ has 
traversed Africa, from Rio-Nunez to Tangier, passing, on 
his route, through Timbuctoo. He wiW. embark to-day on 
board a king's schooner for Toulon, vrhere he will arrive 
without resources. I hope the Geographical Society will 
take charge of this traveller, who, I believe will do it 
honour. He has crossed Africa as a mendicant as such 
he appeared at my door : but I received him, I paid him 
every possible attention, and think myself happy in being 
the first Frenchman who has embraced him. 
He will present himself to you, and will communicate 
to you the materials of which he is the bearer : he pro- 
poses to intrust you with the task of editing them*. 
He deplores the want of means which deprived him 
of the advantages of a brilliant and distinguished education; 
but he consoles himself under this misfortune, in the hap- 
piness of being the only European who has conquered the 
great difficulty, and of having enriched the reign of his 
Majesty Charles X with an enterprise which has baffled 
so many travellers and scientific men. 
* M. Jomard's share in the publication is confined to the itinerary, 
the maps and the geographical discussions, the division, and the gene- 
ral superintendence of the work. 
