Publisher's Synopsis
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. 1869 edition. Excerpt: ... Why the Committee insist upon calling this a private trading journey I am the more at a loss to understand, as I had previously stated to them its objects; and with reference to the account of expenditure furnished to the Society, I debit myself with one-half of the expenses of this expedition, on account of any trade that might arise out of the search for Speke. I maintain that Mussaad's journey was not undertaken with a view to trade; but if, in carrying out his instructions and without prejudice thereto, he traded when an opportunity occurred (and I should have blamed him if he had not done so), I cannot see why the Committee endeavour to disown its real object and throw discredit on the expedition by calling it a trading journey. Do not the whole proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society convey to the world that the main object of every journey or voyage of discovery, which they countenance in Africa and elsewhere, is the extension of British commerce? That it was known and expected I should trade, the following quotation from the "Proceedings," (Vol. VIII., No. 4, page 124), amply testifies: "The President and Council in expressing a hope that you may not only succeed in affording succour to the Zanzibar Expedition, but that you may also succeed in opening a new field to the civilizing influence of commerce." Again, Speke in his letter to me, dated December 22nd, 1859, said, "What a jolly good thing it would be to accomplish! You could do your ivory business at the same time that you work out geography!!" With reference to the statement of Captain (now Colonel) Grant to the Committee that my agent in charge of the boat and stores at Gondokoro made no offer whatever to assist them gratuitously with provisions, an extract from...