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he again travelled to the N. E., until he arrived in the parallel of Loanda. 

 Now came the tug of war ; he had iipwards of a thousand miles to travel 

 across the unexplored countries of our charts a tract never hitherto 

 trodden by any white man, and wholly unknown even to the blacks he 

 had seen as yet. However, this part of their journey proved to be the 

 easiest ; and it was not till he arrived near Cassar.ga, on the Portuguese fron- 

 tier, that he met with any molestation. The country he found to be thickly 

 populated, and the inhabitants very peaceably disposed. From their never 

 having seen a white man before, you may fancy what an object of curiosity 

 he became to them ; wherever he stopped, the people from far and near 

 flocked round him with the utmost astonishment pictured on their counte- 

 nances. As the doctor was very much sunburnt, his color did not so 

 much surprise them as his hair, which was very long ; this was the great 

 object of attraction wherever he went, and highly favored did those fancy 

 themselves who became the possessors of a lock of it. Every tribe he met 

 with had some idea of one supreme Being and a future state of existence, 

 though they all worship in addition various animals that they hold sacred. 

 At every place he stopped they supplied him liberally with provisions, and 

 it was not (as I mentioned before) till he arrived near the Portuguese terri- 

 tories that he met with any trouble. There the inhabitants have been in 

 the habit of kidnapping the people farther inland, to sell to the Portuguese for 

 slaves ; and fearing should a road be opened that way it would spoil their 

 traffic, they became very troublesome, and wanted the doctor to pay toll 

 nearly every step he took. However, by putting on a bold front, he man- 

 aged to make his way through, and arrived at Loanda safely in the begin- 

 ning of June, making it exactly two years since he left the Cape. 







CURIOUS ANTIQUARIAN DISCOVERIES AT CANOSA. 



During the past year, some of the most remarkable antiquarian discov- 

 eries of recent date have been revealed at Canosa, a small village of 

 Southern Italy. This place is the site of one of the most celebrated ancient 

 Greek cities in Puglia, and is the only one in the w r hole kingdom which 

 offers the wonderful contrast of a Greek Pompeii to our Roman Pompeii. 

 It is situated on a rising ground, in the centre of a plain which is surround- 

 ed by a semicircle of low hills. Between these and the modern city the 

 plain encloses for many miles of circumference the old Necropolis, or city 

 of the dead. At every step, on digging three or four feet under ground, 

 we meet with an old path, which conducts by a descent to a tomb com- 

 posed of one or more chambers, and which is surrounded on the outside 

 by other funereal apartments. Their " facciate " are decorated with 

 columns and frontispieces, and are painted with lively colors ; their gates 

 are so well closed by vertical pieces of tufa that the soil has not been 

 able to penetrate them. We enter, therefore, these habitations of the dead 

 as we walk into the houses of the living. The light of the sun shines in 



