103 LETTER XII.

FROM TliE SAME TO THE SAME.

Harley-street, London, My dear Sir, 5tli May, 1801.

I WROTE you at considerable length on the 1st of June last, and assure you that none of your letters, received prior to that date, have remained unanswered. I have now to acknowledge the receipt of your several favours, and beg you to accept my best thanks, for your very curious and valuable present of the gold ring from Wangara, which has been shown to several persons of great distinction, and even to the king himself. It is urivversallij considered as a great curiosity ; and I have taken care to make it known that you are the person to whom I am indebted, for the first Wangarian jewel that has ever been seen in England. I have also shown your letter, containing your judicious opinions upon the course of the Niger*, and other geographical points, to Sir Joseph Banks and Major Rennell ; and have invariably represented you to them, and to others, as the person possessing eminently the best information concerning the interior of Africa; an object which draws at present the earnest attention, both of the learned and the great, and which * See Jackson'b account of Marocco, last chapter.

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