480 CORRESPONDENCE RESPECTING 
to address to us, dated the '2nd of April last, you manifest a 
desire to receive information of any intelligence which may 
reach us upon the subject of the enterprises formed by the 
Society, and especially upon the discoveries which relate 
to the interior of Africa, 
We consider it our duty to communicate, without 
delay, to Your Excellency, the news which we have received 
within the last two days. A Frenchman has been fortunate 
enough to penetrate into central Africa. He even appears 
to have resided for some time in the city of Timbuctoo. 
Having quitted in 18!^7 the banks of the Rio-Nunez, he 
travelled eastwards to beyond the Dhioliba, crossing the 
high mountains of the upper Senegambia. He afterwards 
followed the course of that great river, and embarked upon 
it opposite to Jenne. After a month's navigation he landed 
at Cabra, the port of Timbuctoo. Having made all the 
observations in his power, he entered the great desert of 
Sahara, across which two months and fourteen days toil- 
some travel brought him to the Tafilet, whence he pro- 
ceeded to Tangier. There, M. Delaporte, his Majesty's 
Vice-Consul, administering the general Consulate, received 
him, relieved his immediate necessities, and procured him 
a passage to France on board one of the vessels of the 
state. 
This interesting traveller is named Caillie. He had 
been at the Senegal since 1824 : it was in the month of 
