M. Caillié, whose health has been affected by the fatigue and labour he has undergone, embarked with a fever. It is to be hoped that it will have no ill consequences, and that he will land at Toulon in health and safety.
If M. Caillié does not possess the brilliant qualifications or the education of our modern travellers, he has the ingenuousness and frankness of the honest traveller of the olden time who has given us so much interesting information concerning India; if he is not the Amédée Jaubert of Asia, he will be the Marco-Polo of Africa; and he will have had the merit of achieving, at his own expense and without assistance, what others have been unable to effect with ample treasures.
After his quarantine, he will repair to Paris, where he proposes to request the assistance of the Chevalier Jomard, vice-president of the Central Committee, of the Society, in editing the rich materials in which alone his fortune consists. To bespeak, Sir, your interest in favor of this traveller, is to recommend him to all the members of the Geographical Society, to which I have the honour to belong.
I am, &c.
Signed Delaporte.
Letter from M. Jomard to M. Caillié.
Paris, 18th October, 1828.
Sir,
I have received, with all the interest it deserves, the letter which you have addressed to me respecting your Travels in the interior of Africa. You have justly thought that no one could be more deeply concerned than myself in the success of your journey, and I have not lost a moment in communicating to the Geographical Society the contents of your letters and those of M. Delaporte.