No. IX .— A Letter from the Sheikh o f Bornou to Captain Clapperton No. X .— A Document made at the Court o f Justice o f Bornou No. X I .—Translation o f Letters and Documents received from the Sheikh of Bornou concerning Mr. Tyrwhit’s Death No. X I I .—Translation o f an Arabic MS. . . . . . No. X I I I .—A Narrative o f the first Battle o f Kadawee No. X IV .— The Song o f Mohammed-Alameen ben Mohammed E l Kanemy No. X V .—Translation o f an extempore Arab Song . . . . No. X V I .—Translation of the Song o f the Fezzanneers, on Boo Khaloom’s Death No. X V I I .—Bornou Vocabulary . . . . . Np. X V I I I .—-Begharmi Vocabulary . . . . . No. X IX .— Mandara Vocabulary . . . . . . No. X X .—Timbuctoo Vocabulary . No. X X I .—Zoology . . . . . . . No. X X I I .—Botany . . . . No. X X I I I .—Letter to Major Denham on the Rock Specimens No. X X IV .—Thermometrical Journals . . . • INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. BY MAJOR DENHAM. FROM TRIPOLI TO MOORfcUK. P r e v i o u s to any knowledge I had received of the intentions of His Majesty’s government to follow up the mission of Mr. Ritchie and Captain Lyon, I had volunteered my services to Lord Bathurst to proceed to Timbuctoo, by nearly the same route which Major Laing is now pursuing. I learnt, in reply, that an expedition had been planned, and that Doctor Oudney and Lieutenant Clapperton, both of the navy, were appointed ; and with these gentlemen, by the kindness of Lord Bathurst, I was, at my request, associated. My companions left London before me ; but, as soon' as ready, I lost no time in proceeding in the packet to Malta, where I found that they had left the island for Tripoli nearly a month before. By the kindness of Admiral Sir Graham Moore, Sir Manley Power, Sir Richard Plasket, and Captain Woolley, commissioner of the dock-yard, all my wants were amply supplied ; and judging that the assistance of a shipwright or carpenter might prove of essential use, and being allowed by my instructions to engage any one, at a reasonable salary, who might choose to volunteer to accompany the mission, William Hillman, shipwright, a man of excellent character, immediately offered his services, on an agreement that he should receive 120/. a year so long as he should continue to be employed. I embarked in the Express schooner, which the admiral lent me for the purpose, and, on the 18th November, after three days’ sail, arrived at Tripoli, and found' my two companions at the house of Mr. Consul Warrington,1 anxiously expecting my arrival. Of this gentleman it is not too much to say, that by his cheerful and good humoured disposition, his zeal, perseverance, and extraordinary good management, we owe, in a great degree, that influence b 2 |
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