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In South America, the Frenchman, Dr. Plassard, -who is settled in 

 Ciudad Bolivar, has undertaken an excursion into the interior of 

 Venezuelan Guyana, and found gold to the south of the lower 

 Orinoco, toward the Yuruari. 



At Rio Janeiro, Messrs. Capanema, Lagos, and Gonsalvo Diaz, are 

 preparing for a second expedition into the interior of Brazil, which is 

 almost entirely unknown, and in the possession of wild Indian tribes. 

 They will have a military escort. 



On the 27th of February last, the Sardinian traveller, Brun-Rollet, 

 died at Khartoun, on the boundary between Nubia and Abyssinia. 

 He had penetrated all the country bordering on the upper Nile, and 

 discovered Lake No, in lat. 12 cleg., and the Bhar Keilak, or Misselad, 

 which belongs to the western basin of the Nile. In 1855, he pub- 

 lished in Paris Le Nil Blanc and Soudan. 



The Englishman, Coulthard, died a terrible death, by thirst, in the 

 inner desert of Australia. A traveller, Babbage, found his body in a 

 thicket, and a tin cup near by, on which he had scratched a few lines 

 with a nail, which made known the frightful sufferings that preceded 

 his death. Coulthard set out with two other Englishmen, Scott and 

 Brooks, who probably have perished. 



In the Southern Atlantic, the English Capt. Cubins believes that 

 he has, within the year, found a new group of islands on the track of 

 Australian-bound vessels. 



But the great magnetic centre to which most discoverers instinc- 

 tively turn, is still the interior of Africa. Those vast countries, 

 which are represented in blank on our maps, have been attacked 

 from all sides east, west, north and south. 



The renowned Dr. Robert Livingstone is now making an excursion 

 in those countries which he discovered during his long journey from 

 St. Paul de Loanda to Quilimane. He embarked last year, equipped 

 with instruments for making scientific observations. He will first 

 attempt to go up the Zambeze River in a canoe, which he has named 

 " Ma Robert," or Robert's wife or mother, as the natives along the 

 Zambeze have great respect for the wife and mother of a man whom 

 they admire. 



The English steamer, the Rainbow, sailed on the 6th January, 

 1859, out of Bonny into the Gulf of Benin, to explore the country 

 along the Niger. Ladislaus Magyar, of Theresiopol, in Hungary, 

 who, after the Hungarian insurrection, became a citizen of Brazil, 

 has hit upon a rather singular but very prudent way to penetrate 

 into the mysteries of inner Africa with the greatest possi-ble safety and 

 advantage. He has just married the daughter of the black King of 

 Bihe, in Upper Guinea. He has become commander-in-chief of 

 the armies of his father-in-law, and uses his authority and his 

 soldiers to become acquainted with the countries lying in his neigh- 

 borhood. 



