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example of Speke and Baker by not only ignoring the stipulations 
of the agreement^ but by setting aside the acts of their own Council. 
ThuSj upon the report of my death_, the Council of the Society — 
six months after what the Committee please to call the termination 
of my agreement — authorized Baker_, in the event of my deaths to 
continue the duties that had been assigned to me ! 
That the Council acknowledged my services beyond the date 
fixed by the Committee is proved by their acceptance of my 
accounts of expenditure^ which have not only been passed by the 
Finance Committee for the entire term of the expedition^ but have 
been published in the Society's Proceedings."’^ 
In the accounts submitted to the Society,, every item was par- 
ticularized } but the following curtailed version will; I think; convey 
a more correct idea of the cost of my expedition than that published 
in the Proceedings.^^ 
(See balance-sheet; pp. 182; 183.) 
My having duly advised the Society; from Khartoum; that 
additional expenditure would be required to equip a much larger 
expedition than I had anticipated; and at no time receiving any 
notice of disapproval thereof — my willingness to advance the re- 
quisite funds in the belief that the Society would hold me harm- 
less; as no limit was placed on my efforts to meet Speke — all 
combine to make me consider the Society virtually and morally my 
debtor to the amount of ^4;172 4^. 6d.j the excess of expenditure 
over receipts; as annexed in the account on the next pages. 
Had I met with a fair trial; I make no doubt of the result; and 
feel sure the President would have considered himself justified in 
again appealing to the Fellows to charge themselves with voluntary 
proportions of that balance; the whole weight of which I have been 
left alone to bear. 
