The Sun.
London, England, 1829-01-02 00:00:00

TINIBUCTOO.

(From the .Tournal des Debaig of Thursday.)

We hare already mentioned the extraordinary
journey of M. Auguste Caille to Timbuctoo, a jour-
ney which has made a great noise in the learned
world. The committee which had been appointed
to take cognizance and to give an account of the re-
sults of that journey has just published ita report,
of which the following is an extract :
" The journals of M. Caille are connected in the
most beneficial manner for the perfecting or the con-
firmation of our geographical knowledge with the
excursions of Winterbottom to Tirnbo in 1794;
with that of Major Laing to the territory of Kon-
ranko and Soulimana in 1822 ; of M. Mellien to
Fonta Dhirdlon in 1818; of Munro Park to the
Dhioliba in 1795 and 1805 ; of Doehar4 to Yamina
and Bammakow in 1819; and, finally, with the
itineraries of the caravans in the road from Timbuc-
tou to the country of Tartlet. It is impossible any
longer to dispute thu very elevated position of the
sources of the Bating, the principal tributary of the
Senegal. Setting out on the 19th of April, 1827,
from Kakendy, the tomb of Maier Peddie and
Major Campbell, M. Caille traversed that river at
Butila. Ile traversed also the great river Dhioliba.
Thence he went on, stopping ut Kankan, a large
city in the country of that name, which enriches the
neighbourhood with the gold mines of Bourre ; he
afterwards advanced more than 200 miles to the east
beyond Soulimanhrr, as far as the village of
Time, where he arrived on the 3d of August.
In this village he was detained from sickness
five entire months. At Time he planned ano-
ther excursion towards the north ; this was
the second part of his voyage. M. Caille wished to
get back to the Dhioliba, and set out for that pur-
pose on the 9th of January last, and after having
passed through more than a hundred villages, and
approached within a short distance of Sego, he got
sight of the stream once more on the 10th of March
at Galia, flowing from the west, and passed over a
branch of it in order to get to Jenni. The whole of
this portion of M. Caille's route is entirely new, as
well as his journey from Timbo to Time. The third
part of his journey was on the great river. M.
Caille embarked on the 20th of March, after a stay
of thirteen days at Jenni ; this was in the dry season.
In some places the river was a mile wide; but in
others much narrower. The deprh and rapidity
♦aried. In his piogress he has noted the tributaries
and the islands that occurred, and especially the lake
of Debo (the same that is known and figured in the
charts by the title of Dibble, but whose position is
improperly given), and he has given throughout the
whole course of the river a series of notices as valu-
able for their accuracy as for their novelty.
At length he arrived at Kalif; the port of Tim-
buctoo, oi4 the 19th April, and the following day he
enteric! that city. On the 4th May he left it for
El Arawan, where he arrived in six days, and in
eight days more he reached the wells of Teligue.
The whole of these wells, which are either fresh or
brackish, and every station besides in his passage of
the great desert, is carefully noted by M. Grille.
The season of the burning east winds rendered the
fatigues and privations of this painful journey still
more oppressive to him. He set out from El Ara-
Wan on the 19th May, arid did net arrive at El
Harid until the 29th June ; there the caravan sepa-
rated into several parties, and on July 23 he reached
Tartlet. Finally, on the 12th August, he arrived at
the spot where, in the fourteenth century, Ben Ba-
, tools threw down his staff as a traveller, namely, the
city of Fez, whence he continued his route, accom-
panied- by a guide, until be gained the sea. He got
to Tangier on the 17th September, where the French
Consul received him, attended to his safety, and
succeeded in protecting him from the dangers he
must have incurred if, under his disguise, he had
been recognized.
The success of M. Caille'm undertaking is so
much the more interesting as he effected it entirely
through his own resources, without the participation
or the aid of any one. lie sacrificed every thing
that he possessed to provide for the necessaries for
his journey. He did every thing► that was possible,
and much more than could be expected with such
resources; and he has had the good fortune to suc-
ceed completely.
M. Caine has penetrated as far as Timbuctou ; be
went there, setting out from Senegambia, and has
made several new and valuable observations upon
the Fount Dhiallon, on the countries of the east,
and on part of the course of the Dhioliba. He navi-
gated this river for the space of a month, acquired
a mass of authentic information respecting the mines
of Bourre, and made several other researches. The
discovery of these countries, and the descriptions of
the regions of Baleya, of Kankan, arid Wassoula, are
a valuable acquisition to geography. He has also
the merit of having compiled a vocabulary of the
Mending() language, and another of the Kissour
tongue, spoken in (mnion with the Moorish at
Timbucteo, and of having remarked on all that re-
lates to the customs, ceremonies, production, and
commerce, of the ditlerent countries.

The calendar at the approaching county ses-
sions will be unicinaily Leavy. It is expected that the
total number of ptiloners will amount to 140. Taunton
Courier.

CORONER'S INQUEST.—On Monday last an
inquest took place at the Griffin Inn, Leeds, on the body
of ars-letter Johnson, aged nine years, who was supposed
to hare died from the effects of poison. The inquiry oc-
casioned some interest in the town frona:the circumstance
of four deaths having occurred in the same family within
the last eighteen weeks. After a long and scrutinising
investigation, the Jury returned for verdict that the "De-
ceased died of inflammation of the stomach, and that the
said inflammation was caused by the visitation of God in
a natural way, and not from any violence or otherwise."