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TEAVELS IN CENTEAL AFEICA. 
concerned^ with other places laid down by me much farther south 
and west in my previous journey directed from the Bahar il Gazal 
to the Equatorial district in 1858^ led the President of the Society 
into the error that the district in which I now found myself^ and 
reported on by Dr. Peney^ were identical with my farthest point 
in 1858. With reference thereto^ the President in his address at 
the anniversary meeting, May 26th, 1862 (page 177), Avas induced to 
state the penultimate stage of Petherick^s route undertaken from 
the Bahar il Gazal, from the year 1853 to 1859, was sixty miles 
Avestward from Gondokoro, and if that he the case, an enormous 
rectification became necessary in the estimated extent and direc- 
tion of his itinerary/^ If the reader, however, will -refer to the 
Society's Journal for 1865, he Avill find the most ample confirma- 
tion of the accuracy of my first itinerary, as in the map of ‘‘^The 
Nile and its Western Affluence,^ ^ founded on my astronomical ob- 
servations, and constructed by Mr. Arrowsmith, the error of iden~ 
tity in the places visited by Dr. Peney in 1861, and myself in 1858, 
is self-evident ; the Mundo, alluded to by me in 1858, being therein 
acknowledged to be in 3° 40' North latitude, and 28° 50' East 
longitude ; therefore, in lieu of being sixty miles, as stated by the 
President, from Gondokoro, it has been recognized, as the crow 
flies, at two hundred miles from that spot. 
To return to my narrative. Our sojourn at this point was limited 
to the shortest possible time for obtaining a sufficiency of porters 
for our personal requirements, and the carriage of the stock of 
elephants^ tusks, that, in conformity with the routine of my busi- 
ness, had been collected at this station during the preceding trading 
campaign. A fortnight sufficed to complete that arrangement, and 
on February 12th we were on the desired road to Gondokoro. 
