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in H.M.S. Furious f commanded by Captain Sherard Osborn, r.n., 

 F.R.G.S., an account of which will appear in the 30th volume of 

 our Journal. The second volume treats of Japan and of the country 

 and inhabitants generally, and abounds with interesting informa- 

 tion with regard to that little known empire. 



Siberia. — I have just been informed that our associate, Mr. Atkin- 

 son, so well known for his extensive travels in Russia, is shortly to 

 publish a second work on Siberia. 



Eastern Africa. — Consul M'Leod's " Eastern Africa, with the Nar- 

 rative of a Eesidence at Mozambique," in 2 vols. Messrs. Hurst and 

 Blackett. 



Slowly but increasingly of late years the attention of Europeans 

 has been drawn to the immense resources of Eastern Africa and the 

 importance of redeeming that prolific region and its swarming 

 inhabitants from the curse under which they are laid by the slave- 

 trade. The Portuguese claim possession of the coast from the town 

 of Louren^o Marques on the northern side of Delagoa Bay, to Cape 

 Delgado. Within this range of 15° of latitude lie the mouths 

 of the Zambesi where Dr. Livingstone is now pursuing his heroic 

 enterprise, and southward, just within the Portuguese limits, the 

 mouth of the navigable river Mouakuse, supposed to be continuous 

 with the Limp'opo, which forms the northern limit of the Transvaal 

 Eepublic. Between the two rivers lie the Sofala river, town and 

 territory which Mr. M'Leod identifies with the Ophir of Scripture. 



This work, besides giving a statement of the Portuguese settle- 

 ments in East Africa, supplies valuable information relative to the 

 African dominions of the Imam of Muskat, the island of Madagascar, 

 and the other islands of the Ethiopian Archipelago. The last 

 portion of the work enters fully into the commercial resources of 

 Eastern Africa. 



The Travels, Researches, and Missionary Labours of the Rev. L. 

 Krapf have been published by MM. Triibner and Co., and include 

 also the journeys of the Rev. J. Rebmann and the Views on the 

 Resources of the Wanika, by the Rev. J. Erhardt. To these is 

 prefixed an account, by Mr. E. J. Ravcnstein, f.r.g.s., of Geogra- 

 phical Discovery in Eastern Africa. 



Manual of Geography. — The best testimony to the merits of Mr. ^V. 

 Hughes's Manual of Geography is supplied by the fact of the nume- 

 rous editions which have been successively called for within a recent 

 period. The leading idea which its author has sought to embody in 

 this volume, is the connection of physical geography with the indus- 



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