APPENDIX A. 
89 
At tlie meeting of the Society held June llth^ I860, (see VoL IV. 
No. 5, page 222), the President, in announcing that Captains Speke 
and Grant had started on their expedition, added they would he 
exposed to great dangers, Consul Petherick, from Khartoum, 
could meet him with a large force, and escort him through the 
country. But Consul Petherick could hardly be expected to do this 
at his own expense ; and, as the Government declined making any 
further grant, the Council of the Society had departed from their 
usual rules, and had headed a subscription with jglOO towards de- 
fraying those expenses. He only hoped that many gentlemen would 
contribute towards so good and just an objects 
- The exact nature and limit of the assistance that I might be able 
to afPord Captain Speke not having been decided on, in compliance 
with the request of one of the Council, now unfortunately no more, 
I put forward some proposals which, by reference to the Secretary- s 
Proceedings,^^ will be found in VoL IV., No. 5, page 223. The 
following are extracts therefrom : 
“ In order to afford the greatest possible assistance to the expe- 
dition of Captains Speke and Grant, I consider it necessary to 
place three well-provisioned boats, under an escort of twenty armed 
men, at the base of the cataracts beyond Gondokoro, in the month 
of November, 1861. 
With forty armed men, natives of Khartoum or the adjoining 
provinces, I would then undertake personally to penetrate into the 
interior as far as the Lake Nyanza, with a view to effect a meeting 
with the expedition, and assist it through the hostile tribes between 
the lake and the Nile, and return thence by the boats to Khartoum. 
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I believe that, with the facilities at my command in the shape 
of boats and arms, the expense of such an expedition would amount 
