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am delighted to find he has accepted my plan for opening Africa 
favourably. I proposed to him. that I should not go up the Nile, 
but round by Zanzibar, whilst you, supported by the Eoreign 
Office, should go up the Nile, and meet me at some fixed point 
which I could determine. What a jolly thing this would be to 
accomplish ! You could do your own ivory lousiness at tlie same 
time that you ivorh out geography. I shall be in town about the 
6th or 7th proximo, and will call on you to make further arrange- 
ments. I hope you will yet come down to ‘ Jordans ’ some time 
before you depart again. 
“ Yours very truly, 
“ (Signed) J. H. SPEKE.” 
Shortly after this I accepted his invitation to go down and spend 
a day or two at his father’s residence in Somersetshire called 
Jordans/’ and Captain Speke informs the Secretary of the Koyal 
Geographical, Society thereof thus : 
“‘JOEDANS,’ 
“ January 2nd, 18(50. 
“Mt dear Shaw, 
“ Petherick is coming here on Wednesday, when we shall 
run over his paper on the Nile, and concert measures for meeting 
in the direction of the Nyanza at some future date.” 
Keferring to his design for following up his discoveries in Central 
Africa^ he stated he felt certain the Government would support 
him ; and, in accordance with his warmly- expressed desire (provided 
the Government would sanction my absence and supply me with a 
grant to cover the hare expenses of the expedition) , I expressed my 
willingness to meet him at any given point. With this under- 
standing we journeyed to London, and from the discussion which 
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