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TEAVELS IN CENTEAL AFEICA. 
Why the Committee insist upon calling this a private trading 
journey I am the more at a loss to understand^ as I had previously 
stated to them its objects ; and with reference to the account of 
expenditure furnished to the Society^ I debit myself with one-half 
of the expenses of this expedition^ on account of any trade that 
might arise out of the search for Speke. I maintain that Mussaad’s 
journey was not undertaken with a view to trade j hut if^ in carry- 
ing out his instructions and without prejudice thereto^ he traded 
when an opportunity occurred (and I should have blamed him if 
he had not done so)^ I cannot see why the Committee endeavour 
to disown its real object and throw discredit on the expedition by 
calling it a trading journey. 
Do not the whole proceedings of the Eoyal Geographical Society 
convey to the world that the main object of every journey or 
voyage of discovery^ which they countenance in Africa and else- 
where, is the extension of British commerce ? That it was known 
and expected I should trade, the following quotation from the 
‘‘ Proceedings,^^ (Vol. VIII., No. 4, page 124), amply testifies : 
The President and Council in expressing a hope that you may 
not only succeed in affording succour to the Zanzibar Expedition, 
but that you may also succeed in opening a new field to the civiliz- 
ing influence of commerce. 
Again, Speke in his letter to me, dated December 22nd, 1859, 
said, What a jolly good thing it would be to accomplish ! You 
could do your ivory business at the same time that you work out 
geography ! ! 
With reference to the statement of Captain (now Colonel) Grant 
to the Committee that my agent in charge of the boat and stores at 
Gondokoro made no offer whatever to assist them gratuitously with 
provisions, an extract from Captain Speke^s work — which I shall 
