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its consequent usages^ will conduce to the complete prevention of 
that slavery which, to every Mahommedan, is a domestic necessity. 
If the French and English Governments were to combine, and put 
the screw on the Egyptian Government, there is nothing to prevent 
the imposition of such burdens upon the trade as speedily to con- 
fine it within limits ; and by gradually curtailing these limits, 
slaves will become too great a luxury for any but the wealthy to 
indulge in. Thus, by introducing the thin end of the wedge, a 
change of domestic habits may, in course of time, be realized. 
Upon our return to England, to my very great surprise, I found, 
from a circular of the Royal Geographical Society, dated May 3rd, 
1865, that Baker, by exceeding his instructions and arrogating to 
himself, as far as was in his power, the supplying of boats and 
necessaries at Gondokoro, not only met with the approval of the 
Council, but was to be rewarded by the Society's gold medal for 
supplanting me in the services wherewith I, the Society's envoy, 
was specially charged, and, which, to all intents and purposes, I 
succeeded in carrying out after unprecedented reverses. 
The following is a quotation from the circular ; and of one clause, 
in italics, I complain in particular : 
ff The Patron^s, medal will be awarded to Mr. Samuel Baker for 
his vigorous explorations, entirely at his own cost, in the interior 
of Africa, whereby he first determined the course and position of 
the Atbara, a great eastern tributary of the Nile; next, for having 
fitted out at Khartoum an expedition by which he relieved Speke 
and Grant ; and thirdly, for the further explorations of Equatorial 
Africa in which he is now en gaged. 
That I have just cause of complaint against both Sir Samuel 
Baker and the Council of the Royal Geographical Society I think 
