INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS DURING THE YEAR 1873. Lxxiii 



the elevation supposed to be entitled to that name is at some 

 distance from it, after much effort, has secured the means of 

 visiting the peninsula for the purpose of determining for him- 

 self this interestino: fact. 



The Russian campaign during the last summer, which re- 

 sulted in the capture of Khiva, has also been directly and in- 

 directly the means of important geographical discovery, which 

 will be presented in proper form in due course of time. The 

 chief political result has been the expansion of the Russian 

 sway over the right bank of the Oxus, east of the Aral Riv- 

 er. The region has hitherto been proverbially unsafe for 

 travelers; and it is quite a remarkable fact that newspa- 

 per correspondents write freely from points where, a year 

 ago, they would have ventured upon it at the peril of their 

 lives. 



The interior of Yemen, in the southern part of the Arabian 

 peninsula, has been explored by Holloway, who expects to 

 clear up many problems in reference to the geography of 

 the resfion. 



As usual, numerous explorations have been prosecuted in 

 Africa, but without any very startling result, nothing at all 

 equal to the discovery of Livingstone in 1872 by Stanley be- 

 ing recorded. Livingstone -search expeditions, one under 

 Lieutenant Cameron, by way of Zanzibar, and one under Lieu- 

 tenant Grandy, by way of the Congo, have been heard of at 

 various points, but nothing very important has been devel- 

 oped by their labors.* 



The French expedition, under Compiegne and Marche, left 

 the Gaboon on the 3d of May, and arrived at the village of 

 Doninalonga on the 10th of June. After spending some 

 months in the study of the country, these gentlemen started 

 again on the 15 th of October for the upper part of the Ogowe, 

 known as the Okanda. 



* As this Summary is passing through the press, telegraphic advices have 

 been received in England from Zanzibar announcing the death of Dr. Liv- 

 ingstone in Lobiser on the 15th of August last. In this it is stated that Liv- 

 ingstone died after crossing "Mars Les," with water at one time for three 

 hours above his waist. Members of Lieutenant Cameron's party were suf- 

 fering from fever and ophthalmia, but would await the arrival of the remains, 

 and bring them to Ujiji, whence they would be conveyed to Zanzibar for 

 transfer to England. 



