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you may not only succeed in affording succour to the Zanzibar Expedi- 
tion at a period when it will be most in need of it, but that you will 
succeed in opening a new field to the ci\^ilizing influences of commerce.’' 
T may here state, upon one occasion at the Monday Evenings 
at Home^^ of my greatly lamented friend the late Admiral Murray, 
in the Albany, I first met with Mr. (now Sir Samuel) Baker, and, 
prior to my departure from England, I received the following 
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communication from him : 
“ CONSTANTINOPLE, 
^'■ November 20th, 1860 . 
Mt deae Sie, 
“ Will you oblige me by giving me as much informa- 
tion as you can upon the route between Cairo and Khartoum ? 
“ I should much like to have had the pleasure of seeing you 
again before I started, but, being so near to Alexandria, it is too 
far out of the way to return to England prior to a final start. 
‘M do not intend to limit myself to time; but I shall (D.Y.) 
pass two or three years in the elephant districts, and try and 
combine an extensive exploration with my old amusements. 
“ If Burton could have accompanied me I should have been 
much better pleased. I have written to him ; but, whether or no, 
I shall start from Alexandria about the first week in March ; 
and if you will kindly address me here as soon as convenient, to 
care of C. Hanson and Company, . Constantinople, they will 
forward the letter to me in Asia Minor, where I am going for a 
couple of months’ shooting. 
“ If you could give me a letter to any one in Khartoum who 
could put me up to the right men and the right plan for a first 
go at the elephants, I should be exceedingly obliged. What are 
your movements personally ? and when do you expect to return 
