Nov. 9, 1857.] NOTES FROM THE MISSION TO CENTRAL AFRICA. 35 
interior so soon, and will do so only on being assured that I can- 
not rely on any farther supplies. 
“ I beg to recommend to your special notice my faithful companion 
Corporal Macguire of the Eoyal Sappers and Miners, who has, 
notwithstanding the serious illness under which he suffered in the 
beginning of our journey, used every exertion to promote the object 
of the expedition, and behaved in the most praiseworthy manner. 
“ Edward Vogel.” 
Extract of a Note from Consul G. F. Herman , Tripoli , to the 
Earl of Clarendon. 
“ My Lord, — I have the honour to report to your Lordship the arrival here on 
the 14th instant of Mr. F. Warrington from Murzuk. His successor, Mr. Gae- 
tano de Fremaux, after a long and arduous journey, reached that place on 
the 8th of February, and immediately assumed charge of the Vice-Consulate. 
“ I have farther the honour to transmit to your Lordship a copy of a despatch 
from Dr. Vogel, dated Kuka, 4th December last, accompanied by a description 
of a fish that he had discovered in the waters of the Chadda, and which he 
requests may be sent to some zoologist in England who understands German. 
“ As Dr. Vogel states to me that he had in his possession nearly 1000 dollars 
in money — as merchandise to the amount of 190£. and 100 dollars in money 
were forwarded to him by the last caravan that left Murzuk — and as another 
will not leave that place for Bornu before the end of July, if even then, I have 
instructed Mr. de Fremaux to retain until farther orders the 1000 dollars, which 
in my despatch separate No. 4, of the 8th instant, I reported to your Lordship 
had been remitted to Murzuk for the use of the mission ; for should this money 
reach Kuka, as it certainly will, after the Doctor’s movement to the southward, 
it would be utterly impossible to send it after him. If on the other hand the 
Doctor, by unforeseen circumstances, should be detained in Bornu longer than 
he contemplated, the money can be sent forward to Kuka. In the mean time 
he will have ample funds and merchandise for his present wants.” 
The President. — We are exceedingly indebted upon this, as upon many 
other occasions, to the Earl of Clarendon, who, as a member of this Society, 
loses no opportunity of communicating to us all documents relating to geo- 
graphical discovery. I may, indeed, mention that I had recently the honour 
of waiting upon Lord Clarendon, as one of a deputation from the British 
Association for the Advancement of Science, with reference to the exploration 
of the Zambesi, when his Lordship assured us that he, on the part of the 
Government, was warmly disposed to offer every assistance to our enter- 
prising and meritorious associate, Dr. Livingstone, in all his future researches ; 
that he hoped through his agency to establish an important commerce with 
the natives ; and that he looked upon our intercourse with the African as a 
subject of the greatest importance, as likely to procure for us a supply of cotton 
and other articles essential to the manufactures of Britain. 
On a future occasion we shall have to consider a valuable memoir giving 
the details of Captain Burton’s voyage down the east coast of Africa to the 
point from which he has started to pursue his adventurous journey into the 
interior, in which he will endeavour to determine the great question of whether 
there are really any lofty snow-covered mountains from whence it has been 
supposed the Nile may flow ; or whether, as Dr. Livingstone’s researches into 
the origin of other great African streams would suggest, the Nile does not 
take its source in one of the great interior lakes of that continent. 
