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I congratulate myself in having to acquaint the Geo- 
graphical Society with these acts of royal beneficence, 
which I have joyfully seized the opportunity of recom- 
mending in recompense for M. Caillie's devotedness. 
Be pleased to accept^ &c. 
Signed B3,Yon Hydk de Neuvii lk. 
Extract from the Minutes of the General Meeting 
of the 5th of December, 1828. 
M. Jomard^ the organ of the Committee charged to 
draw up an account of the results of M. Caillie's travels, read 
the report, which was listened to with the most lively and 
intense attention. After having successively explained all 
the reasons upon which the conviction of the Committee was 
founded, and especially the agreement which subsists be- 
tween the accounts of this traveller and those published 
by such of his predecessors as are the most accurate and 
most deserving of credit ; after having announced that 
M. Caillie's journal contains an itinerary continued without 
interruption from Rio-Nunez to Tangier ; the reporter 
delivered a sketch of the results of the Travels sufficient 
to excite, but not to satisfy the curiosity of the audience. 
He enumerated the principal places which our countryman 
visited during a journey of seventeen months^ and of about 
three thousand miles. We shall only cite his embarka- 
tion at Jenne on the Dhioliba (vulgarly called the Niger) ^ 
his navigation from thence to Timbuctoo, during an entire 
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