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my time and services to meet and assist Captain Speke as far as 
T am capable in the discovery of the sources of the Nile.” 
On the 30th of the same month (January) the Council of the 
Royal Geographical Society applied to the Foreign Office for a 
special grant to enable me to afford assistance to Captain Speke in 
his approaching expedition; this grants as will be subsequently 
seen^ the Government refused to make. If any further corrobora- 
tion were needed to show the manner in which I became connected 
with Captain Speke^s expedition^ the following extract fromVol. I V., 
No. of the Society's Proceedings^^ (March 26th;, 1860) ^ would 
be conclusive. 
'^Captain Speke said since returning to Europe he had met 
Mr. Petherick, who_, unknown to himself^ and while he had been 
exploring close to the southward of the Equator^, was also travelling 
amongst the tribes to the northward of it, and had brought back 
names_, such as he had heard of and inserted in his map, as Barri 
and Wangara; the latter, probably, meant for his Wanyaro. These 
tribes, he was informed by Mr. Petherick — quite in conformity with 
the Arabs^ account of them — were hostile to one another, that they 
never mixed, and that penetration amongst them would be most 
difficult. He (Captain Speke) had consequently proposed Ho Mr. 
Petherick to make a combined advance simultaneously with him on 
those tribes which lie in a short compass of two or three degrees 
immediately to the northward of his lake, and due south of Gondo- 
koro, the German Mission-station on the Nile ; Mr. Petherick to 
come towards Uganda from the north, while he went northwards 
to the Nile, hugging any river he might find running out of the 
lake. Now, as Mr. Petherick had readily assented to co-operate 
with him, and as so much hung upon the security or otherwise of 
