“I recommend myself to your remembrance, and assuring you of my great esteem, am
“Sir,
“Your most obedient,
“FREDERICK HORNEMAN.”
Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks, K. B. President of the Royal Society, &c.
Mr. Horneman, previous to setting out for Bornou, had availed himself of the intimacies he had formed with intelligent pilgrims and merchants of the Egyptian caravan, and with others at Mourzouk, who were natives of, or had traded to, different regions of Africa, to collect every possible information respecting the countries he was about to visit; and, together with his Journal, transmitted the following result of his enquiries.
FOOTNOTES:
[12]It never came to hand.