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Mention Iiouee, with the Mayor providing, to promote the
scheme Stanley spoke, and the audience included William
Burdett-Coutte H. P. Moberley Boll the editor 6f the Times 9
Ilorace Waller and other A. &. 5. members, Cheanon of the A. P. S.,
some London bankers and financiers and X'. n Surteee-Alnott
of Gordon rescue-expedition fame,
(1)
But differences of
opinion existed among the leading promoters, - Allen, Samuel
Baker and V. L. Cameron preferred the Vile route and the
completion of the Borber-Suakin railway, to the Congo route.
The scheme also found it difficult to get-off the ground, -
Cameron irrote of the NAnbion House meeting, ''There was a
great deal of talking and enthusiasm in word, but unless I
an mistaken the pecuniary returns were about 920, and this in
answer to an appeal for £100,000 to enable tha Congo-Loudon
expedition to be despatched and placed ona permanent
footinr. "
(3)
There seems to have been come idea that the
International Association would pay the expenses.
Allen tried to enlist the services of Joseph Thomson
(1) Anti- $1nyery Poo orter, August 188$9
(2) V4, Allan to baker 39at Julr1883.
(3) Fortni rhtiv fl viow, August 1885:, VL. Cameron, "Tho future
of the : oudan, p" 139.
(4) 41 Alien to Baker, 11th August 1885,
(4)
(2)