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PREFACE. 
all liis other papers or letters. I have taken out only 
the letters of recommendation of the Mission and the 
papers concerning the treaty to be made, as well as a 
letter from Lousou, one of the Taaricks, and another 
from Ibrahim, the Governor of Zinder, to the Queen, 
which I shall enclose in my report to Government. I 
send you, besides, an authentic list of all the objects 
found in Mr. Richardson^s possession, as it has been 
made up on the things being deposited with Haj 
Beshir. 
" I beg you to assure Mrs. Richardson of my most 
sincere sympathy, and that I hope she will find a good 
deal of consolation in the rich journal of the de- 
ceased." 
I have given the above narrative in the 
words of Dr. Barth ; but must direct the 
reader's attention to vol. ii. p. 261, where lie 
will find that the whole account of the pro- 
phetic dream is distorted by the very unau- 
thentic medium of Oriental report. There is 
no reason to suppose that Mr. Richardson was 
unusually affected by this circumstance, although 
any dismal suggestion is likely to disturb a 
person of sensibihty placed in a dangerous po- 
sition. The remaining facts, as they seem con- 
firmed by concurrent testimony, may be taken 
as a sufficiently accurate account of the death 
of this lamented traveller. 
