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TEAVELS IN CENTEAL AFETCA. 
object without serious risk to the lives of the party under your command. 
Should the junction with Captain Speke be effected, which there is every 
reason to believe will be, previous to June, 1862, you will consult with 
him as to the best means of employing the period which will elapse 
before the change of the Monsoon will permit you to descend the Nile 
of extending our knowledge of the adjoining region. 
“ In entrusting you with the sum which has been subscribed for this 
purpose, the President and Council, considering themselves accountable 
to the subscribers for its proper expenditure, will require an account of 
its disbursement. If circumstances should prevent your meeting with 
Captain Speke’s expedition, they consider that you are entirely relieved 
from the responsibility of remaining yourself, or detaining the boats, 
longer than July, 1862, at Grondokoro. 
‘‘The President and Council desire to impress upon you the necessity 
of obtaining, as frequently as possible, astronomical observations for the 
ascertaining of your geographical position, and that you forward, as 
often as opportunity offers, copies of your journal to the Secretary of 
this Society. 
“ A list of instruments, together with instructions respecting their 
use, and notices of such phenomena as it it is likely you will have an 
opportunity of observing, is herewith appended, to which also are added 
manuals on ethnology, botany, and zoology ; to each of which sciences 
as well as geology, you will have an opportunity of adding mnch new 
information. In addition to the ‘ Hints for Travellers,’ published by 
this Society, particular instructions relative to the peculiar character of 
the great river you are about to explore have been prepared, and which, 
it is hoped, will assist you in making observations which will throw 
much light on the geography of this region. 
“ The President and Council take this opportunity of expressing their 
admiration of the spirit of enterprize which has induced you at great 
personal risk, and, possibly, considerable pecuniary loss, to undertake 
the charge of this expedition; and they hope, under Grod’s providence. 
