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mountains inhabited by Pagan tribes, he left Corporal Maguiro 

 there, and turned westward himself to determine the watershed be- 

 tween the so-called Yeou, the river which joins the lake Chad from 

 the west, and the smaller and eastern branches of the Kwara or Niger. 

 It was then that he discovered in a very hilly tract a northern or 

 important branch of the Benue, named Gongola, and proceeded as 

 far as Zuriga, the capital of Zeg-Zeg, the erroneous position of 

 which in previous maps he corrected. Proceeding to Bebeji, the 

 site of which he also fixed, he arrived at Kano, a place then afflicted 

 by cholera, and, returning to Yakoba, again descended into the 

 valley of the Benue at Zhibu of Dr. Baikie (Chunbum of Vogel). 

 Visiting several places on the river, he observed a large cetaceous 

 animal called Ayu, to which his attention had been directed by 

 Barth, and since named by Professor Owen Manatus Vogelii. Having 

 rejoined Maguire, who had suifered much in the mean time from 

 sickness, they returned in December, 1854, to their head-quarters 

 at Kuka. Procuring there fresh supplies he intended to proceed 

 to the E. and s.e., and started for Waday on the 1st of January 

 of last year, leaving Maguire in Kuka, since which time we have had 

 no reliable tidings of his progress. 



Dr. Barth suspects, however, that he must have made some stay 

 at Loga or Logone, visited by both Denham and Barth, and also at 

 Bagirmi, where the latter traveller spent some months, as described 

 in the third volume of his work. 



Whether the order ever reached Vogel to direct his steps towards 

 the Nile is unknown, but at all events it is certain that he was pro- 

 ceeding in that direction, when, as it is reported, he fell a sacrifice 

 to the orders of the savage King of Waday, such being the news 

 brought by the natives to Corporal Maguire,* and reported to the 

 Foreign Office by Colonel Hermann, H. M.'s Consul at Tripoli. 

 There is, indeed, too much reason to apprehend that this report 

 may prove true, seeing that the King of Waday, a violent and re- 

 vengeful man, may have taken the life of Vogel, because some of 

 his sable majesty's property had unfortunately been seized and con- 

 fiscated in the port of Bene-Ghazi to satisfy the claims of British 

 merchants, and at the very time when an English agent was travel- 

 ling in Waday. 



On the other hand, knowing that both Dr. Barth himself and our 

 other African Medallists, Galton and Livingstone, were reported to 



* Corporal Maguire is coming home with the observations and instruments. 



