5 1 6 Wanderings i7i Eastern Africa. 
did at an early date, when the facts were fresh in my 
mind, and before I could be biassed by the heat of 
discussion. The account was published in extenso in 
the T^m^i" newspaper of July 27th, 1872. The accuracy 
of the statements it contained was questioned ; but, as 
the Times afterwards admitted in a leading article, 
fuller information only confirmed my account. A 
similar letter was at the same time addressed to the 
Council of the Royal Geographical Society ; but feel- 
ing that it was impossible to do justice to myself in 
such communications, I e^^pressed a wish to appear 
before the Council, in order that I might enter more 
fully into the details of the case. The desired inter- 
view, however, was not at first granted, and the 
Society published its first report without having heard 
my explanation. Thereupon the Times launched its 
thunderbolts at the head of the expedition party ; 
when I came in for as severe a castigation and con- 
demnation as the rest. I felt the injustice, and I 
wrote to Sir H. Rawlinson, the president of the 
Society, complaining that I was being condemned 
without having been heard, and respectfully asking 
for fair play. A committee was convened, before 
which I was allowed to appear and make my state- 
ment. The result was, that in the next and final 
report of the Society upon the subject, I was exone- 
rated from all blame ; furthermore, the committee 
expressed their perfect confidence in me. The words 
of the report are as follows : " With regard, however y 
to the Rev. Mr. New, who was engaged by Lieut. 
Dawson at Zanzibar, they feel bound to say, that having 
heard from him a full explanation of the circumstances 
under which he acted, they acquit him of all blame, and 
