Nov. 23, 1857.] 
THE EAST AFRICAN EXPEDITION. 
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Arrived at Mombas, we visited Mr. Bebmann, who had not re- 
ceived the communication of the Church Missionary Society. The 
rev. gentleman is now at Zanzibar. 
I received from Mr. Henry L. Anderson, the Political Secretary 
to Government at Bombay, a copy of a letter from the Medical 
Board of Bombay recommending that Assistant-Surgeon Stein- 
hausen, b.a., for whose services I had applied, should be furnished 
with such medicines and surgical instruments as he might consider 
necessary. Farther, that to assist in the advancement of scientific 
research, meteorological instruments may be obtained from the 
medical stores at Bombay, and placed at his disposal. 
Under the same inclosure was transmitted for my information 
copy of a letter from Mr. George Buist, Secretary to the Bombay 
Geographical Society, dated 8th December, 1856, conveying certain 
useful suggestions with respect to the expedition. I am about to 
supply the Bombay Geographical Society with a few geological 
specimens and an account of copal-digging in these regions, in conse- 
quence of Mr. Secretary Anderson’s letter, and hope that the Royal 
Geographical Society will approve of the step. I am grateful for 
this supply of extra instruments. 
Returning to Pangany on the 21st February, we lost no time in 
catching the fever, as Capt. Speke, my Portuguese servant, and I, 
were attacked by the disorder-— a severe bilious remittent — on the 
same day. My companions were comparatively fortunate ; the fever 
stuck to me for a week, and left me in the condition of a bed-ridden 
old woman. Under these circumstances it was judged advisable 
to postpone the remainder of our coasting voyage, and to seek 
medical aid at. Zanzibar without delay. We arrived here on the 
6th March, and were received with his usual kindness and hospi- 
tality by Col. Hamerton. We are both recovering by degrees from 
the consequences of fever, and hope soon to be duly seasoned for 
travel into the interior. The rainy season and the s.w. monsoon 
have just set in, and we shall therefore be confined to the island 
for some time. We are now engaged in providing ourselves with 
an outfit, which, for economy, must be purchased before the season 
opens, in applying to the Prince for an escort, and in making ready 
the hundred impediments which belong to African travel. 
It appears that during the present year Southern and Eastern 
Africa will be penetrated in various directions. At Zanzibar I 
lately met M. Gabriello de Rivalta, a Capucin of the Lyons French 
mission, who is proceeding to his head-quarters — the hitherto in- 
accessible Kaffa. M. Guglielmo Massaja, the “ Vicario Apostolico dei 
Gallas,” has made that province his residence, and two other priests 
are living at Gudru and Enaera. Father M. Gabriello has lately 
