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letter dated Zanzibar, November 21, 1859, he is said to have been 

 met half way to the Nyassa. A Hanoverian gentleman, the Baron 

 von Decken, who is known as a keen Algerian sportsman, and who 

 is by no means unversed in the manipulation of geographical 

 instruments, has already set sail for Zanzibar with a view towards 

 a lengthened wandering among the Kilimandjaro range. 



Consul Petherick's daring overland expedition to the southward 

 of the Bahr el Ghazal is a successful feat that has taken all African 

 geographers by surprise. The weapons and utensils that ho has 

 brought back from the interior are exceedingly curious; among 

 them we find iron boomerangs, with sharp cutting edges, a most 

 fearful instrument in savage warfare. The Bari people, who use 

 them, are the only others in the world besides the Australians who 

 appear to have discovered the singular properties of that strange 

 projectile. The interest of Mr. Petherick's journey is very great, 

 for he introduces us to an entirely new race of negroes, and its 

 value will be largely increased when either his own astronomical 

 observations, on a future occasion, or those of Captain Speke, shall 

 have localized with certainty the scene of his late exploits. ^Ve 

 have, farther, to acknowledge Mr. Petherick's valuable advice and 

 offers of assistance in regard to Captain Spoke's relief, should that 

 officer reach Gondokoro. 



From our enterprising associate, Mr. Cyril Graham, we learn 

 that, wishing to go to Thebes, and not desiring to accompany the 

 travellers passing up the Nile, he went to Suez, and embarked on 

 board a vessel, with 300 Ilagijis, bound for Mecca. They ran along 

 the western shores of the Eed Sea, until they reached " Cosseir," 

 in lat. 26° N., where he landed, and proceeded towards Thebes. 

 After four and a-half days' camel travelling, ho reached Thebes, 

 and passed through a country peopled by blacks, called Ababcch. 

 There was no water between this place and the Nile ; a spring is 

 found two days south of Cosseir, which supplies that place. The 

 country crossed abounds in valuable mineral productions, as green 

 and red porphyry, much prized b}^ the Egyptians 5,000 years ago. 

 To the south of this are gold and silver mines, although much 

 exhausted. Mr. Graham remained 15 days at Thebes, and then 

 started for the desert, and, travelling northward, reached Cairo in 

 safety, after making the circuit in 37 days, over nearly 1,000 miles. 

 Mr. Graham says that this journey had never been made before, 

 and that he was repaid by the discovery of several interesting 

 inscriptions. Here Mr. Graham remained a few days to translate 

 a valuable Arabic MS., and then intended leaving for Syria to spend 



