Dec. 14, 1857.] 
FATE OF DR. VOGEL. 
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Mr. Moffat refers to certain fountains in calcareous tufa towards the middle of 
the country. It is found that all these fountains if cut into from a lower level 
will yield a perennial spring. I have seen farmers, guided by a patch of 
rushes, begin a deep canal a mile off, and cut up to the rushes, and so get a 
stream which runs the whole year. Occasionally I have seen them cut into a 
well that had ceased to flow, and get a constant supply of water. The Boers 
in the colony are enterprising and industrious, and are developing a trade in 
wool. Lately, Mr. Salt has sent out twenty alpacas to the Cape, which I have 
no doubt will succeed well. There is every probability that in the course of 
time it will become a more flourishing colony. 
The Third Paper read was : — 
Latest Accounts of the Foie of Dr. Vogel. 
Communicated by the Right Hon. the Earl of Clarendon, k.g., f.r.g s., Foreign 
Office. 
My Lord, Alexandria, October 23, 1857. 
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Mr. Hammond’s despatch, 
Consular No. 8 of the 9th ultimo, instructing me to, direct the British Vice- 
Consul at Khartum to make all possible inquiries as to the fate of Dr. Vogel, 
the African traveller, and in the event of its being ascertained that Dr. Vogel 
is in a state of captivity, to authorize the Vice-Consul to adopt the most 
effectual measures he can devise, and if necessary to offer a ransom, for Dr. 
Vogel’s release. 
I immediately transmitted the necessary instructions to Mr. Vice-Consul 
Petherick at Khartum ; but having since learnt that there is an ambassador 
from the King of Darfur to the Viceroy of Egypt, now at Cairo, I have, 
through Mr. Messarra, the Dragoman of this Consulate- General, been in com- 
munication with that personage, and I transmit a report of a verbal statement 
made by the Ambassador of Darfur to Mr. Messarra, which I fear almost 
places beyond a doubt the reported murder of Dr. Vogel by the King of 
Wadai.* 
I have, &c.,, 
(Signed) G. Green. 
The Earl of Clarendon , &c. 
Verbal Statement of Said Mohamet Saanghiti, Ambassador from the King 
of Darfur to the Viceroy of Egypt. 
Cairo, 19th October, 1857. 
Before my departure from Darfur I was informed by several per- 
sons (natives of Senegal) that three European travellers, under the 
names of Abdul Carim, Abdul Wahed, and Abdul Samad, had arrived 
from Bengazi at Fezzan, and from thence to Bornu, where they met 
Seik Umar, the prince governing that district, who received them 
very well, and gave them letters of recommendation to the governors 
of Begharum, Mandara, Adamao, Houssa, and Malla, provinces inde- 
See Proceedings R. G. S., No. I., vol. ii., p. 30 . — Ed. 
