ABSTRACT
We shall place at the close of our remarks several pa-
pers which the reader will perhaps be well pleased to pe-
ruse. 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. Caillié. 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.
