Letter of His Excellency the Minister of the Marine to M. Jomard.
Paris, 10th December, 1828.
I hasten to announce to you that upon my proposition, the King has deigned, by an ordinance of this day, to create M. Caillié a Knight of the Legion of Honour: I request you will have the goodness to announce it to him. I shall be happy to see him to-morrow, Thursday the 11th of December, between the hours of eleven and one, to communicate this intelligence to him personally.
Be pleased to accept, &c.,
Signed Baron Hyde de Neuville.
Letter of His Excellency the Minister of the Marine, to Baron Cuvier, President of the Geographical Society.
Paris, 11th December, 1828.
You have transmitted to me, in the name of the Geographical Society, a copy of the report of the special commission charged to draw up for the society an account of the travels of M. A. Caillié to Timbuctoo and in the interior of Africa. I have the honour to thank you for the communication of this interesting report.
I have learned with pleasure that the Society has judged M. Caillié deserving of the recompense proposed to the traveller who, setting out from Senegambia, should penetrate to Timbuctoo.