VI 
PREFACE. 
the Bahar il Gazal; and to the latter more particularly for his 
labours in editing some articles which appeared in the columns of 
the Morning Advertiser/^ and subsequently, jointly with Captain 
Burton, now Her Majesty^s Consul for Damascus, in a work entitled 
The Nile Basin. 
To other friends, whose names are unrecorded here, we none 
the less sincerely and gratefully offer our acknowledgments for 
kind services and warm sympathy. 
Our thanks we also beg to proffer to the directors of the Penin- 
sular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company for the liberal 
manner in which they responded to our application for supplies 
from their well-furnished stores at Suez. At the desire of our 
relatives, who wished to entertain and see the last and first of us, 
we embarked and disembarked at Liverpool ; and as we were not 
passengers in the Company's boats, we have the greater pleasure 
in recording this disinterested act of liberality on the part of the 
directors. 
To attempt to eulogize the scientific contributions to these 
volumes by Dr. Gray, P.Z.S., P.B.S., and Dr. Gunther, F.B.S., 
of the British Museum, would appear unseemly. The known 
ability of these able writers amply justifies us in the conclusion 
that their respective papers will be as warmly recognized by the 
readers of this work as they are acknowledged by ourselves. 
Since writing the above, the painful intelligence has reached 
these shores of the death of that accomplished and daring traveller, 
Miss Tinne, who has fallen a victim to her zealous desire to explore 
the savage regions of Bournou. Her sad end will be widely and 
deeply lamented wherever human sympathy can appreciate exalted 
views coupled with gallant enterprise. 
In the form of an Appendix, as being of less general interest 
than a description of travel, is placed an account of Consul Pethe- 
rick’s connection with the Boyal Geographical Society, and duties 
as envoy of that Society to succour the Zanzibar Expedition under 
Captain Speke. Whether his services in that capacity have been 
misrepresented or not, he ventures to appeal to the judgment of 
his fellow-members of the Boyal Geographical Society and the 
public at large. 
