498 CORRESPONDENCE 
month in the season of shallow water ; his residence in 
this town^ and his subsequent journey across the great 
desert, during two months and a half, to the kingdom of 
Morocco and to Tangier. There M. Delaporte, Consul 
of France and a member of the Geographical Society, re- 
ceived our countryman, lavished upon him all the atten- 
tions which his ill-health and exhaustion demanded, after 
his escape from the dangers of the climate and the perils 
of so long and arduous a journey. 
The report was warmly applauded ; and, in confor- 
mity to the conclusions of the Committee, M. Caillie was 
introduced, and received from the hands of the President 
the recompense offered to his generous self-devotion, that 
is to say, the produce of a susbcription opened by the So- 
ciety in behalf of the person who should first succeed in 
penetrating to Timbuctoo by the way of Senegauibia, and 
in furnishing a description of that town. 
Let lev from His Excellency the Minuter of the Interior, 
Paris> 5tb December, 1828. 
Gentlemen, 
I have received the letter which you did me the honour 
to write on the 29th of November last, and with it a copy 
of tne report made to the Society upon the travels of 
M. A. Caillie in the interior of Africa. 
