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ing Africa favourably. I proposed to him that I should not go 
up the Nile, but round by Zanzibar ; whilst you, supported by 
the Foreign Office, should^ go up the Nile and meet me at some 
fixed point which I could determine. I shall be in town about 
the 6th or 7th proximo, and will call upon you to make further 
arrangements.” 
Subsequently^, at a meeting of the Royal Geographical Society (see 
Proceedings/^ Yol. IV., No. 2, page 42), Sir Roderick Murchison 
remarked that he ^^was quite sure that the new co-operating ex- 
peditions, which loere designed by the Royal Geographical Society y 
and which he hoped the Government would assist,^^ &c., &c. 
Again, at the meeting of March 26th, 1860, Captain Speke, 
after narrating how he met me, says, he (Speke) had consequently 
proposed to Mr. Petherick to make a combined advance, simul- 
taneously with him, in those tribes which lie in a short compass of 
two or three degrees immediately to the northward of his lake, 
and the southward of Gondokoro.^^ 
The President said, it was exceedingly desirable that Govern- 
ment should grant that additional power to Mr. Petherick, which 
would enable him to lend real assistance to Captain Speke at the 
time of need,^^ &c. 
It was then, consequently, at the request of the Secretary of the 
Society that, in June, 1860, in conformity with the proposals of 
Captain Speke and backed by the wishes of the President and 
other leading members of the Council, I made a formal statement 
of how I thought I could be of service to Captain Speke. . 
At the meeting of the 11th June, 1860 (see Proceedings,^^ 
Vol. V., page 222) the President, in announcing that Speke and 
Grant had started on their expedition, added, Consul Petherick 
from Khartoum could meet them with a large force and conduct 
