After attending to the reading of them with marks of the most lively satisfaction, the Society decided that, while the effect of the representations I am about to make to the government is in suspense, the sum of five hundred francs should be transmitted to you to relieve your immediate wants, and to assist you in your journey to Paris.
We think, Sir, that it will conduce to your interest to make the best use of your time which your situation and health will permit, in committing to paper all your recollections while still fresh in your memory; and particularly that you should note, with exactness, the hours or the days of march, the bearings you followed, and whatever from its nature is liable to be forgotten, as the names of places and proper names in general.
I offer you, Sir, all the service in my power; dispose of my feeble interest; and, above all, take the repose which is so necessary to the re-establishment of your health after such long continued fatigue.
I have the honour to be, &c.
Signed Jomard.
Extract of a Letter to the President of the Academy of Sciences.
Paris, 18th October, 1828.
Mr. President,
I have the honour to communicate to the Academy of Sciences the contents of the letters which I yesterday received from M. Delaporte, Vice-Consul of France, administering the general Consulate at Tangier. A Frenchman has accomplished the journey to Timbuctoo. He has been fortunate enough to traverse almost the whole of Africa, north of the Equator, from the Rio-Nuñez, in about 10° 15’ north latitude, to the Straits of Gibraltar, and is arrived in health and safety at the Consulate at Tangier, after having crossed the Atlas between Tafilet and Fez, and travelled during sixteen consecutive months.