Travels Through Central Africa to Timbuctoo; And Across the Great Desert, to Morocco, Performed in the Years 1824-1828 Volume 2 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1830 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER V. DOCUMENTS AND MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS. We shall place at the close of our remarks several papers which the reader will perhaps be well pleased to peruse. In 1824, the Geographical Society published a programme of a premium to be decreed to the first French, or foreign, traveller who should arrive at Timbuctoo by the way of Senegambia. It is known that this programme was distributed throughout Europe and in Africa, and that it powerfully influenced the efforts or the projects of many travellers, and especially the resolution adopted by M. Caillie." We shall give this programme as published; and afterwards, the report made to the same Society by the committee which it appointed four years afterwards to judge of the merit of the discoveries made by the French traveller. These two papers will be followed by extracts from the correspondence relative to his return to Europe. SOCIETY OF GEOGRAPHY 1824. Premium for a Journey to Timbuctoo and the Interior of Africa. The fortunate attempt of the English travellers who penetrated into Central Africa in 1893 has lately attracted the attention of Europe towards the interior of that continent, which now divides public curiosity equally with the polar regions, the centre of Asia, and the new countries of Australia. It was natural that the Society of Geography should direct its attention to this quarter also, pointing out as preferable the route already attempted by Mungo Park, and which touches upon the French establishments in the Senegal; with it therefore originated the idea of a subscription for the encouragement of travels to Timbuctoo. It proposes 1o offer a premium to any traveller who shall be fortunate enough to surmount all the perils incident to this enterprise, and who shall at the...