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found a perfon who was willing to take his draft for five gui- 
neas on the Prefident of the Royal Society. 
"With this affiftance he arrived in England, and immediately 
waited on Sir Jofeph Banks, who told him, knowing his tem- 
per, that he believed he could recommend him to an adventure 
almoft as perilous as the one from which he had returned j 
and then communicated to him the wifhes of the AUbciation for 
Difcovering the Inland Countries of Africa. 
Ledyard replied, that he had always determined to traverfe 
the Continent of Africa as foon as he had explored the Interior 
of North America ; and as Sir Jofeph had offered him a Letter 
of Introduction, he came direSily to the Writer of thefe Memoirs. 
Before I had learnt from the note the name and bufinefs of my 
Vifitor, I was ftruckwith the manlinefs of his perfon, the breadth 
of his cheft, the opennefs of his countenance, and the inquietude 
of his eye. I fpread the map of Africa before him, and tracing 
a line from Cairo to Sennar, and from thence Weffward in the 
latitude and fuppofed diredion of the Niger, I told him that 
was the route, by which I was anxious that Africa might, if 
poffiblc, be explored. He faid, he fhould think himfelf fmgu- 
larly 
