490 CORRESPONDENCE RESPECTING 
ensure his attention, I transmitted to him a copy of the 
succinct narrative with which you favoured me, and for 
which I thank you. 
Please to accept, &c» 
Signed Martignac, 
Letter from the Presidents and Secretary of the Society 
to M. Delaporte, 
Paris, 3rd October 182&, 
M. Vice Consul, 
In a letter from Toulon, dated 10th October, M. 
Auguste Caillie informs us of a journey he had just ac- 
complished in the interior of Africa, and pays you a just 
tribute of gratitude for the generous manner in which you 
received him. In answer to your letter of the 3d instant, 
confirming the circumstances of this journey, we hasten to 
address to you the thanks of the Geographical Society for 
the additional particulars it contains, and especially for 
the attention which you paid to our countryman. In 
thus fulfilling the duties of humanity, you have saved the 
life of an estimable and courageous traveller, the first 
amongst Europeans who has returned from Central Africa 
by way of Morocco. 
The Society has already strongly recommended 
Caillie to the Ministers of the Marine and the Interior, and 
