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what had become of Petherick? He was actually trading 
at Neambara^ seventy miles due-west of this,, though he had,, since 
I left him in England^ raised a subscription of <£1,,000 from those 
of my friends to whom this journal is most respectfully dedicated/^ 
Thus,, though not actually avowed,, it is,, I fear^ implied^ that my 
trade was benefited at the expense of the Speke Expedition, to sup- 
port which, with a singleness of purpose and an utter disregard 
of consequences, I was devoting my utmost energy and the entire 
means at my disposal. 
On December 15th, in lieu of the wearied men who had proceeded 
thither, a powerful escort, with porters from Wayo, by forced 
marches had hastened and arrived to our relief. They found me 
in a sad plight : the rest had acted beneficially on most of the sick, 
but I had become a helpless invalid from gastric fever. Had it not 
been for the medical skill and great attention of Dr. Murie, and 
the careful nursing of my wife, I must have succumbed. It was not 
until a month afterwards that I was enabled to leave the Neangara. 
Our welcome station Wayo, in latitude 40° 46' North, and East 
longitude 3C 9,t the junction of the rivers Bibio and Ayi, in 
the Moro territory, was reached January 25th, 1863. 
Now that I have arrived with my narrative into the heart of the 
Moro district, it may not be inopportune to notice what during my 
absence had taken place at the meeting of the Royal Geographical 
Society on May 26th, 1862. 
My deceased friend Dr. Peney, in 1861, had been in this district, 
and in his report thereon, addressed to Monsieur Jomard, and pub- 
lished in the Nouvelles Annales des Voyages,^^ and referred to at 
the above meeting, quoted several names of places, such as Mundo, 
Moro, and Neam Neam, which coinciding, so far as the names were 
