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tified in the opportunity of expressing to you^ individually, 
the high esteem which I profess for scientific men and 
travellers of your nation. With these sentiments I beg 
you to believe me^ &c. 
Sisn ed Jomard. 
Letter from His Excellency the Minister of the Interior 
to the Presidents and Secretary/ of the Geographical 
Society, 
Paris, 28th October, 1828. 
Sir, 
I have received the letter you did me the honour of 
vrriting to me, and in vrhich, in answer to that which I 
had addressed to you on the second of April last, you com- 
municate to me the most recent intelligence that has 
reached you from the interior of Africa. I have read with 
real interest the details relative to the travels of the Sieur 
Caillie, the first French traveller, you observe, who has 
returned without danger and even with success, from 
such an enterprise. I see with pleasure that the Geogra- 
phical Society has conferred on him marks of satisfaction 
for my part, Gentlemen, in compliance, with the wishes 
you conveyed to me, I have written in his favour to His 
Exc. the Minister of the Marine. I have requested that 
minister will have the goodness to provide the Sieur Caillie, 
with the means of repairing to Paris ; and the better to 
