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Instead of co-operating with our expedition, he had gone to his 
own ivory depot in the west, and only arrived at Gondokoro four 
days after ourselves. We learned from Baker that kind friends in 
England had placed <£1,000 in the hands of Mr. Petherick for our 
succour, and were doubly surprised he had made no effort to meet 
us. It was to M. de Bono^s men, and not Mr. Petherick^s, that we 
were indebted for our escort. I feel it due to the memory of my 
companion to state these facts, and to say that I had the same 
feeling of disappointment he had, and that our meeting with Mr. 
Petherick was by no means the cordial one we anticipated. Having 
been previously supplied with all necessaries and three return boats 
by Baker, for conveying us to Khartoum, we required nothing, 
save a few yards of calico, to replace the bark-cloth of our twenty 
Seedees, and this we obtained from the stores of Mr. Petherick. 
Now, I cannot but think that the impression conveyed to the 
public must be that I not only neglected my duty to the Speke 
Expedition, in pursuit of my own interests, but that, with respect 
to the <£1,000 contributed, I made no use of it for that purpose, 
rendered no services, nor made any return whatever for it. Any 
casual reader, after perusal of the above passages, would, it strikes 
me, lay down the book with that impression upon his mind. 
Before dismissing with an emphatic denial the truth of Captain 
Grant^s statements, I may remark that in accordance with my 
letter, appended as it was to the instructions of the Boyal Geo- 
graphical Society, and forwarded for Captain Speke by the Colonial 
Office, June 11th, 1860, to the Cape in the Governor's bag — the 
Speke Expedition had no right to expect more than two boats and 
men to await them with supplies at Gondokoro. Instead of two, 
they found four boats awaiting them, one of which had been there 
for that purpose upwards of four months previous to their advent to 
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