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that they were not made use of for the downward voyage to Khar- 
toum — nor but a trifling quantity of stores accepted — was surely 
no fault of mine. 
Captain Grant says that he had learned from Baker that kind 
friends in England had placed £1^,000 in the hands of Mr. Petherick 
for our suecour^ and were doubly surprised that he made no effort 
to meet us.^^ Captain Grant might have added that I placed in 
his own hands the prospectus of the Eoyal Geographical Society 
concerning the subscription fund of the so-called succour dodge.^^ 
Moreover, prior to the date of the publication of his work, the 
Royal Geographical Society were in possession of the accounts of 
my expedition, by which Captain Grant might have seen that, in 
lieu of the 1,000 referred to, the sum total of the expenditure I 
had incurred in my eflPorts to assist him had amounted to upwards 
of five times that sum. 
The excess of £4,600 and upwards, over and above the sum 
subscribed, was with no slight effort and sacrifice obtained entirely 
from my own resources ; and I venture to hope, that if Captain 
Grant is at a loss to appreciate the efforts I had made, and the 
preparations at Gondokoro for the arrival of Captain Speke and 
himself, the subscribers to my fund and a just public will view the 
subject in a different light. They may regret, with myself, that I 
was not on the scene five days earlier in person ; but they must, 
I think, admit the injustice of Captain (now Colonel) Grant^s 
assertion that I had made no effort to meet him. 
But when it is considered that the advent of the Speke Overland 
Expedition from Zanzibar was sixteen months behind its appointed 
time at Gondokoro, considering also the unprecedented rainy sea- 
son which commenced two months earlier than usual, with its 
accompanying southerly and contrary winds, inundating thousands 
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