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extent of my exertions to relieve the Speke Expedition. By 
reference to the documents alluded to, it will appear that for 
reasons therein assigned, in order to hope for a successful result, 
an expedition on a much larger scale than the one agreed to had 
become indispensable ; therefore, during the greater part of the 
time originally contemplated for its duration, instead of two, I 
had seven boats employed for the relief of Captain Speke and his 
party. ’ 
“ One of these boats, laden with stores of various descriptions, 
reached Grondokoro against unprecedented difficulties in October, 
1862, and, according to instructions, it remained there until the 
arrival of Captains Speke and Grant, from which they drew a 
certain amount of stores and grain, which Mr. Baker had it not 
in his power to supply. 
“ Another expedition of three boats left Khartoum in Decem- 
ber, 1862, and arrived at Gondokoro in January, 1863, prior to 
Mr. Baker. One of these (the ‘ Kathleen ’) had been taken 
possession of by Captain Speke, a portion of whose effects were 
on board on my arrival at Gondokoro. 
“The expedition from my trading station southwards, I beg 
to say, was an exploring and not a trading one ; and notwithstand- 
ing the return of two boats under the charge of Abd il Majid, 
in disobedience to my orders, on the 10th May, 1862, from Gon- 
dokoro, and seven weeks prior to the date fixed for the termina- 
tion of my agreement, it took place consequent on the certain 
information conveyed to him by the person in charge of De 
Bono’s station, of the impossibility of Captain Speke reaching 
Gondokoro before the following season. 
“ Again permit me to state, the slaves discovered by me in the 
possession of Abd il Majid, were not brought by him from my 
station, but were, in conjunction with other traders, carried off 
from the vicinity of Gondokoro. 
