CAILLIE AND HIS TRAVELS. 483 
him the support of your benevolence. The»i»8ociety en- 
treats you to have the goodness to procure for him the 
means of conveyance to Paris. 
We are, &c. 
Signed Baron Cuvier, President of the So- 
ciety ; Viscount Simeon, Vice-'preside7it ; Jo- 
MARD, Vice-president of the Central Com- 
mittee; De Larenaudierb, Secretary. 
Mr, John Barrow, to M* Jomard. 
Sir, 
I have the honour to address myself to you on a sub- 
ject in which I am persuaded you take as much interest 
as myself — the progress of the discoveries in Africa. 
J see by the supplement to the 66th Bulletin publish - 
ed by the Geographical Society of Paris, that a French- 
man, of the name of Caillie, has succeeded in reaching 
the city of Timbuctoo ; and that M. Delaporte, Vice-Con- 
sul at Tangier, observes in his letter to you, announcing the 
arrival of M. Caillie, that that traveller consoles himself 
for the fatigues which he has endured by the reflection 
that he is the only European who has hitherto succeeded 
in happily accomplishing an enterprise in which so many 
brave travellers have fallen. 
Far be it from me to conceive the idea of detracting 
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