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me his boats. At a subsequent meeting he^ with a view to ignore 
his connection therewith and his letters to me from Jordans 
{see page 80), with great effrontery, asked me who it was that 
had prompted the succour dodge [ 
With reference to the subject of our meeting, as quoted in his 
work (page 603), of which no mention was made at the time, he 
accuses me of trading at the Neambara ; but for a refutation of 
this most extraordinary statement I must merely beg to refer the 
reader to the body of this work, and without further comments 
upon the memory of one now no more, request the public to draw 
their own inferences with regard to the truth of this statement, and 
leave to their consideration the merits or demerits of his conduct. 
But were it true that 1 had been trading, was it not in connection 
therewith that I first became known to the Boyal Geographical 
Society? and was it not in accordance therewith that this very 
expedition was planned ? and had Captain Speke forgotten his letter 
to me from Jordans,’^ dated December 22nd, 1859, wherein he 
suggested that geography and trade might be combined? and re- 
ferred to page 80, Vol. II. 
With reference to Captain Grant, who, on the contrary, was most 
friendly at Gondokoro, a change in his sympathies had evidently 
taken place since his return to England, and I was not a little 
surprised to find the following passage relative to our meeting at 
Gondokoro in his book, A Walk across Africa,^^ page 366. He 
says : 
But where was Petherick ? Had he made no preparations for 
us ? or, finding we were not able to keep time, had he despaired 
and given up the search ? A handsome diabeah and luggage-boat 
of his were here, but there were neither letters nor instructions for 
us. He himself was not at Gondokoro, and had never been there. 
