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Dveca, or DAGA-BOOT ; a medicinal root growing on the Somali 
coast, used for almost every ailment in that part of Africa. 
KonARIMA CARDAMOM (Pereira), Kheil or Khil of the Arabs.—A 
rare Cardamom, of which Mr. Hanbury has received fine specimens. 
The fruit is met with in the market of Mussowah. 
Wunnus, or WAnUS; a red powder of a plant resembling the Se- 
same, chiefly used as a dye. Two kinds are brought to market, the 
best from the interior, the other from the Somali coast. It is sent to 
Bombay, and is much prized for the light brown colour it imparts to 
silks. 
NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
SEEMANN, BERTHOLD, F.L.S., and Member of the Imp. Acad. Nat. 
Curios., Naturalist of the Expedition, ete. : Narrative of the Voyage 
of H.M.S. Herald, during the years 1845-51, under the command of 
Captain Kellett, R.N., C.B.; being a Cireumnavigation of the Globe, 
and three Cruizes to the Arctic Regions in Search of Sir John Franklin. 
2 vols. 8vo. London: Reeve and Co. 
From the days of the illustrious Cook to the present time, it has 
frequently fallen to the lot of the naturalists to become the chroniclers 
of the scientific voyages which they were appointed to accompany. 
With few exceptions their narratives reflect great credit both on the 
accomplished writers themselves and on the Government which chose 
them for the service. In the instance now before us we might have 
remained for many years in ignorance of one of the most important 
voyages that ever sailed from our shores, if it had not been for Mr. 
Seemann’s zeal and ability, conjoined to the remarkable facility with 
which, though a landsman, and a foreigner by birth and education, he 
acquired the British seaman’s knowledge and habits. The commander 
of the expedition, Captain Kellett, was deputed, soon after his return, 
to join in the search after Captain Franklin; he left but slender mate- 
rials wherewith to aid Mr. Seemann in completing the narrative, and a 
still greater drawback existed in the circumstance that our author was 
not attached to the Expedition till a year and a half after it had sailed 
from England, so that he was indebted for many important hydrogra- 
