Letter from His Excellency the Minister of the Interior.
Paris, 5th December, 1828.
Gentlemen,
I have received the letter which you did me the honour to write on the 29th of November last, and with it a copy of the report made to the Society upon the travels of M. A. Caillié in the interior of Africa.
I shall examine with interest what it may be in my power to do towards fulfilling the wishes you express in favour of a traveller, who has executed an enterprise of the great importance of which, in its relation to science, and our intercourse with countries, hitherto, and even still, so imperfectly known, I fully appreciate, as the Minister of the Marine has done.
Be pleased to accept, &c.
Signed Martignac.
Death of Major Laing.—Literal translation of a Letter written at St. Louis by a Moor of Timbuctoo, and addressed to M. Jomard by M. Prosper Gerardin.
St. Louis, 1828.