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CORRESPONDENCE RESPECTING 
Letter of His Excellency the Minister of the Marine, to 
Baron Cuvier, President of the Geographical Society, 
Paris, 11th December, 1828. 
You have transmitted to me, in the name of the Geo- 
graphical Society, a copy of the report of the special com- 
mission charged to draw up for the society an account of 
the travels of M. A. Caillie to Timbuctoo and in the 
interior of Africa. I have the honour to thank you for the 
communication of this interesting report. 
I have learned vrith pleasure that the Society has 
judged M. Caillie deserving of the recompense promised 
to the traveller who, setting out from Senegambia, should 
penetrate to Timbuctoo. 
Considerably as my department has already contri- 
buted to the formation of the fund appropriated to this 
object, I have proposed to the King to grant to M. 
Caillie, from the colonial funds, a special indemnity of 
three thousand francs, the allowance of which 1 have 
directly announced to M. Caillie. 
A favour of still higher value has since been decreed 
to this traveller ; by an ordinance of the IGth of December, 
issued upon my report, the King has named him a Knight 
of the royal order of the Legion of Honour. 
