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ians ; 4, the Romans, Arabs, and Turks ; 5, Aryans. In the 

 same journal General Faidherbe gives an, account of the eth- 

 nology of the Canaries. 



We have elaborate accounts of the Ashantee War and of 

 the tribes in the route of the British Army from Messrs. G. 

 A. Hentz, Frederick Boyle, Winwood Reade, Henry M. Stan- 

 ley, Henry Brackenbridge, Captain of the Royal Artillery, J. 

 A. Shertchley, and Dr.Rowe, chief of staff to Sir John Glover. 

 Dr. A. Bastian is about to publish a map an(J illustrations 

 giving the results of the German expedition to the coast of 

 Loango. 



The travels of Dr. Georg Schweinfurth in the "Heart of 

 Africa," and over the routes of Petherick and Miss Tinne 

 although he penetrated much farther than they introduce 

 us into the country of the Bongo, Dyoors, Dinka, Niam-Niam, 

 and of the Monbuttoo and other tribes. The most interest- 

 ing of his discoveries were the Akka, a tribe of pigmies or 

 dwarfs, to whom Herodotus alludes, and who have been in- 

 cidentally mentioned by many old writers, as well as by 

 Krapf and Du Chaillu. He succeeded in bringing one part 

 of the way home with him to Berber, where poor Tikkitikki 

 succumbed to change of air and diet. A translation of Dr. 

 Schweinfurth's admirable work is published by Harper & 

 Brothers. 



In Revue cT Anthropologic (Vol. III., No. 3), Dr. Revenger 

 Feraud describes the tribes who occupy the shores of the 

 Casamanca River in intertropical Africa. 



A paper was read before the Geographical Section of the 

 British Association at Belfast, on the explorations of Dr. 

 Nachth>-all in Baghirmi and other adjoining regions of Africa, 

 from 1869 to 1874. 



The Geographical Society of Italy, Florence, has received 

 from Alexandria two living individuals of the tribe of Akka, 

 or Pigmies, of Tikku-Tikku, whom Miani had bought of King 

 Munza. These individuals, of whom one is eighteen years 

 old and forty inches high, and the other sixteen and thirty- 

 one inches high, are pot-bellied, thin-limbed, and knock-kneed. 

 The crania are spherical and prognathous; the limbs are 

 very long, and their skins are copper-colored. 



Very interesting accounts have reached us from time to 

 time of the expedition of Lieutenant Cameron, in search, 



