On Sunday the 7th October, the expedition reached Cape Coast Castle in seventy-two days after sailing from Milford Haven, after having touched at the isle De Los, Sierra Leone and other points for a supply of fuel for the two steamers.  Some cases of fever had taken place, but as yet no death had occurred.  At Cape Coast, the governor Maclean and the officers of the garrison treated their visitors with the utmost kindness and hospitality.  Here Lander fortunately secured the services of his old tried servant Pascoe, as well as Jowdie, and two natives of the Eboe country, who were likely to be of great service to the expedition, one of them being the son of a chief, and both intelligent, with a slight knowledge of the English language.  The Alburkha, of which vessel some fears were entertained, was found to work admirably, exceeding the expectations of her commander and the other officers attached to the expedition.  They sailed from Cape Coast Castle about the middle of October, for the river Nun, and proceeded direct from that river to the river Niger.

At the meeting of the geographical society of London in the month of June 1833, the following letter was read, addressed to R. W. Ray, esquire, from Richard Lander, dated——­

Niger Expedition, River Nun, October 26, 1832.

I have the honour to inform you that the expedition under my command arrived here on the 20th instant, all well.  I found on my arrival here that the captain of the Liverpool brig Susan, had paid king Boy.  I hope you will be pleased to honour the bill.  I have made king Boy a handsome present from the ordnance stores you were good enough to supply me with, and he accompanies me to the Eboe country to settle the palaver with king Obie.  King Boy and king Forday were very glad to see me again, and say I am no man but a devil.  I sail this evening and, expect to reach the Eboe country in four days, and feel quite confident of success.  I find Mr. Alien sent out by the admiralty a very agreeable companion.

(Signed,) Richard Lander.

From the account of the seaman who was the bearer of it from Richard Lander to his brother in Liverpool, some further information was obtained, that all the vessels of the expedition had reached the Eboe country previously to the sailors leaving the Nun river.  The seaman stated that the steamers stemmed the current bravely, and ascended the Niger with apparent ease.

The following extract of a letter from Sierra Leone, dated May 23, contains some interesting intelligence respecting the expedition: 

The boats of his majesty’s ship Curlew had boarded the Columbine about the 20th April, the master of which vessel had died a few weeks previously.  The doctor on board the Columbine had received letters from Mr. Lander dated from king Obie’s palace at Eboe, about three weeks after they had sailed from the entrance of the river Nun.  King Obie had treated them with much kindness, and had made Lander