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that the Chinese are led by this sentiment to a greater dis- 

 play of disinterestedness, and that persons condemned to be 

 executed in the barbarous Chinese method can find sub- 

 stitutes, willing to undergo even capital punishment for the 

 benefit of their families. 



A Narrative of the Voyage of Discovery performed by Cap- 

 tain Blackwood, R.N., on board Her Majesty's ship Fly, writ- 

 ten by Mr Jukes, the naturalist to the expedition, contains 

 new and very interesting information respecting the native 

 tribes of New Guinea, and some of the adjacent islands. I 

 shall not attempt to extract the ethnological statements 

 which this work contains, as they could not be compressed 

 within a short space. The book is written in a very lively 

 and interesting manner, and it is easy of access. The writer 

 has given in many particulars a more correct account of the 

 Papuas and other black tribes to the northward of Torres 

 Straits, than we have before obtained. In regard to the 

 Haraforas or Alfoers, a people about whom much has been 

 written, but nothing until very lately accurately known, Mr 

 Jukes coincides with the opinion communicated to me by my 

 late friend, Mr Earle. I have already put into print the sub- 

 stance of this account.* 



Numerous books have issued from the press, containing 

 accounts of recent travels in various parts of Africa. One 

 of the latest of these describes the journey of Mr James 

 Richardson, who has visited some tribes of the Tuaryk, of 

 whom, previous to his travels, we knew only the names. A 

 very curious book relating to Soudan, in the interior of the 

 Continent, is the translation lately made by Dr Rosen, from 

 the original narrative of Sheik Mohammed Zain-el-Abidin in 

 Central Nigritia. We have no recent accounts of the Abys- 

 sinian nations, with the exception of a paper read by our enter- 

 prising and meritorious countryman DrBeke, at the last meet- 

 ing of the British Association, on the original seats of theGatta, 

 which the writer supposes to have been the country to the 

 northward of the Mono-Moezi, in Eastern Africa. M. Anthony 

 d'Abbadie is, as I believe, still in some part of Abyssinia. 



* Researches into the Physical History of Mankind, vol. v. 



