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his followers, was massacred by the Bari on his return to the 

 north, and Stanley's letter was flung aside, but was afterward 

 found by a detachment sent out by Colonel Gordon. 



On the 17th of April Stanley left Murchison Bay, on his 

 return to the south, and was accompanied by an escort as 

 far as the Kotonga River. Leaving this river on the 20th 

 of April, he returned to Kagehyi on the 5th of May, where 

 he found that Frederick Baker, one of his European servants, 

 had died on the 23d of April. 



The area of Lake Nyanza is set down as 25,300 square 

 miles. It is stated by the Geographical Magazine that Stan- 

 ley's observations and those of Speke agree very closely, 

 the difference in the estimates of the two explorers being 

 very slight. 



The result of the labors of Lieutenant Cameron is, if any 

 thing, found to be more important than that of Stanley, as 

 being through a less-known region, and solving a still great- 

 er geographical problem. This officer of the British service 

 left the eastern coast, near Zanzibar, on the 24th of March, 

 1873, reached Ujiji on the 21st of February, 1874, left for the 

 west coast on the 18th of May, 1874, and arrived at Loanda 

 in November last. It appears that he was not able to follow 

 the Congo on leaving Lake Tanganyika, but was obliged to 

 take a more southerly course ; but allows the inference that 

 the lake is really the head of the Congo River, as recently 

 maintained. 



Nothing very definite appears to have been received from 

 the expedition of Colonel Gordon, which had for its object, 

 in part, the exploration of Lake Nyanza. No later advices 

 have come to our knowledge than that of the arrival of Lieu- 

 tenants Watson and others of his party at Gondokoro on the 

 8th of December, 1874. From that point they were to pro- 

 ceed to the exploration of the Nyanza in a boat previously 

 prepared at a station near the falls that obstruct navigation 

 between Gondokoro and the lake. 



The official reports of the exploration of the Ogowai River 

 by Messrs. Compiegne and Marche have been published by 

 the Geographical Society of Paris. The London journals, 

 however, do not consider the results of their labors as add- 

 ing very materially to geographical discovery. 



Some months ago it was stated that an expedition was 



