APPENDIX A. 
79 
write a short description of your travels in Africa, well loaded 
with amusing anecdotes and fights with the natives : the thing 
would tell admirably just at present, and for the future would 
keep the world looking anxiously for your peregrinations. 
“Excuse the hint, and take it only as it is meant. I, for 
instance, shall be very proud if you will condescend to accept 
this advice, and wish you as good success in the undertaking as 
I feel confident you would merit if you only take the trouble.” 
Captain Speke again writes thus from York, but without a date, 
simply Sunday.” The letter was received by me at Cardiff, 
October 1.2tb, 1859 : 
“Mr DEAE Petheeick, 
“ Since I dispatched my last to you, I have seen your map, 
which you so kindly and cleverly drew up for me. It was lying 
in Mr. Blackwood’s ofiice, and is there now ; for I told him that 
I would again write and ask you to publish it in his magazine 
yourself. You would have my experience to join with your 
knowledge of Africa, and if you will only trouble yourself to 
put them together, you would be a world-wide benefactor. 
“ The interest of the matter must he much more intense than 
you suppose, or I am sure you would not withhold from the 
public what they want so much, and which is now kept secret 
within yourself. 
“ The Boyal Gfeographical Society have not the means of 
spreading anything about, whereas Blackwood has a larger circu- 
lation than anybody else. Again, the Boyal Gfeographical Society 
are slothful to the last degree, hut Blackwood does not want a 
week to produce a map, a paper, or anything else.” 
On the other hand, I acceeded to the desire of several of the 
