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time the Portuguese Government have set forth a claim to Bulama. In 1843 

 the Governor of Bissao landed a party of soldiers on the island, and hauled 

 down the British flag. The island having heen taken formal possession of for the 

 Crown of England by Lieutenant Lapidge, of Her Majesty's brig Pantaloon, 

 on the 24th of May, 1842, several naval officers reported a strong military force 

 would be necessary to protect British settlers at Bulama and to resist the 

 attacks of the Kanabac islanders. It is manifest, from my several despatches, 

 that the latter danger is no longer to be apprehended. The Bissagoes have no 

 disposition to enter into hostihties with the British : on the contrary, they are 

 most desirous to be on friendly terms with us ; the King of Orango anxiously 

 wishes to have the British flag in his harbour. They ^^ only require a 

 market,'" the opportunity to get rid of their su[)erfluous productions in exchange 

 for the common necessaries of European existence, and, in the words of Living- 

 stone, " they will be found keenly alive to the great value of every article of 

 eommerce." 



I have, &c., 



The Right Hon. H. Lahouchere, 

 &c, &c. 



L. Smyth O'Connor, Governor. 



9. Asie Mineure : Description Physique, Statistique, et Archeologique de 

 cette Contree. Par P. de Tchihatchef, Hon. f.r.g.s. First and 

 Second Parts. 8vo. Paris: Gide et J. Bandry, 1853; 



This work, which is quoted in several places by Eitter, consists of two large 

 volumes, and is illustrated by a map, which is very copious in its physical 

 geography, and for the accuracy of which the author professes himself to be 

 greatly indebted to the astronomical observations of M. Wroutchenko, that 

 have enabled him to correct the positions of M. Kiepert. In the first volume, 

 or part, after a disquisition on the origin of the terms Asia, Asia Minor, and 

 Anatolia, M. de Tchihatchef treats of the general configuration of the peninsula, 

 and successively of its coasts and seas, capes and gulfs, lakes, rivers, mineral 

 springs, mountains, and plains. From this part of the work the following 

 passage is extracted, which relates to a region amongst the most famous on 

 the earth, and which has a perpetual interest for the student of history and 

 antiquity : — 



" The learned researches of M. Chevalier, to whom belongs the incontestable 

 merit of having discovered the true position of the Ilium of Homer, have 

 proved that in the time of Strabo the names of Scamander and Simois had 

 completely lost the signification which they had had in Homer's time, for 

 Strabo places the Simois to the east of the Scamander, which proves that it 

 was one of the branches of the Dumbrek or the Kalifatly-chai of the present 

 day, which he designates by that name, notwithstanding that he makes the 

 Scamander come from Mount Ida, whence Homer states that the Simois 

 descends, placing, on the contrary, the Scamander to the south of the Simois, 

 and its origin in the warm springs close to the side of the ancient Troy. It is 

 evident that the Scamander of Homer can only be the Bunarbashi-su of 

 modem time, and his Simois the Mendere-su. The modem name of the 

 Mendere, which is obviously only a comiption of the word Scamander, or 

 Scamandre, proves that the Simois of Homer had become generally known 

 under the erroneous name given to it by Strabo. The confusion seems to have 

 increased more and more, since Vibius Sequester even stated that the Meander 

 and the Simois fell into the Propontis. The geographer Plutarch, who wrote 

 in the second century of our era, employs the two names in the same sense as 



