APPENDIX A. 
I HAD been fifteen years in Africa prior to my return home in 
July, 1859. My occupation during these years has been given 
to the public in my book entitled Egypt, the Soudan, and the 
White Nile,^^ published by Messrs. Blackwood and Co. in 1861. 
My visit to England was owing to the natural desire I entertained 
of again seeing my relatives and friends after so long an absence, 
and also for the purpose of acquiring firearms, principally large- 
bore rifles for elephant shooting on the White Nile. 
One of my earliest calls in London was on Sir B. Murchison, 
whose acquaintance I had made, many years previously, by render- 
ing him and Professor Sedgwick — then on a geographical tour — 
some trifling attention, in showing them the neighbourhood of Dil- 
lenburg, in the Duchy of Nassau, where I then resided. 
Captains Burton and Speke had just discovered the Tanganyka 
and Nyanza Lakes. Then, as now, African geography was the 
favourite topic of the Boyal Geographical Society, of which Sir 
Boderick was Vice-President. His reeeption of me, after my giving 
a brief account of my wanderings in Africa, was as warm as I could 
wish, and, without being consulted on the subject, resulted in my 
being proposed and elected a member of the Boyal Geographical 
