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PLAN OF PROCEEDINGS. 
Eogland by the 13tli of April, and more than two 
months having since elapsed, Captain Allen considered 
that this fact of his promotion, might be taken as 
some proof of the approbation of Her Majesty’s 
Government, of the views detailed in those dispatches; 
he thei-efore resolved, much against his own personal 
wishes, to lose no more time, but sail immediately in 
prosecution of the objects of the Expedition, which a 
further delay might interfere with, by curtailing the 
period of remaining in the river. 
It may be as well here to state briefly, what were 
Captain Allen’s intentions, had not the opportune 
arrival of the orders from England prevented him. 
On arriving at the model farm near the confluence 
of the two rivers, he would have left the ‘ Soudan’ to 
arrange the affairs of that establishment, if necessary, 
and taking Commissioner Cook with him, would have 
proceeded at once to Rabbah ; as it had been originally 
an object, in which all the Commissioners were agreed, 
to gain over if possible, to the wishes of Her Majesty’s 
Government, the chief of the Filatahs, who resides 
in that city. The negotiations with minor chiefs 
would then have been ea^y, as his influence is so 
widely extended. If time and health had permit- 
ted, he would afterwards have ascended the river 
Chadda, to carry out the instructions with any power- 
ful chief — as yet unknown — who might have been 
found on its banks ; and to add to geographical science 
some knowledge of that noble river, which he had 
