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TRAVELS m CENTRAL AFRICA. 
In answer to the last paragraph of the Committee's statement, 
if they had referred to my report to the Society they might easily 
have satisfied themselves that, after June, 1862, I did not possess 
the means wherewith to trade ; and by a reference to my account 
of expenses they would also have seen that I had given credit for 
transactions in trade, during the entire course of my journey, to 
the amount the ivory obtained at Khartoum, viz., J016O. 
That, at a subsequent date, the Council of the Society entertained 
a different view of my proceedings after June, 1862, is proved by the 
insertion in the Journal for 1865 of a short abstract of my ^^Land 
Journey Westward of the White Nile.^^ It contains what no other 
traveller has furnished, for, besides astronomical data, it contains 
the measurements of the White Nile, and its western tributaries 
from the Sobat southwards, up to 4° 46' N. latitude. And although 
the Expedition Committee could give me credit for no other than 
personal motives for this journey, the Geographical Society of 
Gotha thought differently, and Dr. Petermann, in the MittheiU 
iingen,^’ declares that ‘^‘^we must acknowledge it to be the most 
important journey of all hitherto accomplished in the territory 
between the Upper White Nile and the Djour;^^ and in another 
place he adds, ‘^‘^One also plainly sees that upon this map special 
importance was laid, and, indeed, it appears to us to be the most 
important thing in the new volume of the Journal. 
In finally submitting myself to the judgment of the subscribers 
to my fund as to whether I performed, so far as it was in my power, 
what I had undertaken, I beg to again bring before their notice my 
last communication addressed to the President and Council of the 
Royal Geographical Society previous to starting on my expedition. 
