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one, and the travellers had every reason to be satisfied with their 

 reception, although their plans for returning southwards on the other 

 side of the lake were not approved of and could not ultimately be 

 carried out. They managed, however, to effect a successful reconnais- 

 sance of Lake Stefanie, a much smaller sheet of Avater, about 70 miles 

 long and from 13 to 15 broad, which lies to the east of the northern 

 end of Lake Rudolf. Like Lake Rudolf, Lake Stefanie is brackish, 

 and has apparently no exit ; its altitude was calculated at 1,740 feet, 

 about 440 feet above that of Lake Rudolf. There are said to be two 

 villages belonging to one of the Galla tribes near the northern shore 

 of Lake Stefanie, where a small stream runs into it, but the adjoining 

 district is almost uninhabited. 



After a month's stay among the Reshiat, Count Teleki and his 

 followers turned homewards, pursuing the same track along the 

 eastern shore of Lake Rudolf, but then diverging westwards through 

 the districts of Turkana and Suk, to their former quarters on Lake 

 Baringo. In their return hence to the coast we need not follow 

 them ; it will suffice to say that they reached Mombasa on the 

 morning of October 24, 1888, after about twenty-one months' 

 absence. 



The scientific results of Count Teleki's expedition have been by 

 no means inconsiderable. The geographical and ethnological infor- 

 mation amassed has been worked up by v. Hohnel, and published in 

 a special part of Petevmanns Mitiheilnngen, while the Geological obser- 

 vations have appeared in the Denhschvifien of the Imperial Academy 

 of Sciences of Vienna. The Zoological and Botanical collections 

 have been entrusted to various specialists, and memoirs upon them 

 have appeared in the Sitzungsbenchie of the same Academy. More 

 than a thousand specimens of Coleoptera were collected by 

 V. Hohnel during the journey, and are referred to 247 species, among 

 which nearly one-fourth are found to be new to science. Dr. 

 Schweinfurth, of Berlin, a well-known authority on African Botany, 

 undertook the flowering plants, among which we see registered 

 Senecio serra, " the most elevated flowering-plant on Kilima-njaro, 

 growing at a height of 16,278 feet, between volcanic ashes and 

 rocks" ; a curious new Lobelia (L. Telekii) from the western slope of 

 Kenia, and a new form of Composita^ (Hdhnclia) from Ndoro. 



Of the mammals met with during the expedition, no account 

 seems to be given except Count Teleki's " game list," and certain 

 incidental remarks in the narrative, upon some of which a few com- 

 ments may be added. The supposed new rhinoceros found on Lake 

 Rudolf is not very clearly described. Its chief peculiarity is its " small 

 head " and diminutive size, being one-third less than that of the 

 ordinary R. biconiis. On the other hand, the horns are "finer and 

 more pointed " and much more flattened. The dimensions of the 

 horns are not given, nor is it stated whether specimens of them were 

 brought home. The occurrence of Grevy's Zebra {Equiis grevyi) on the 

 shores of Lake Rudolf is a fact of much interest, as it shows that the 

 fauna of the Shoa Highlands descends nearly to this district. 

 Originally described from a living animal sent to Paris by King 

 Menelek, this zebra has recently been obtained by Captain Swayne 

 and other explorers in the interior of Somali-land. But Ritter von 

 Hohnel might as well have given us an original drawing of this zebra, 

 instead of copying (without acknowledgment) the figure of the flat 

 skin published in 1890 in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of 

 London. The "unknown Gazelle" of which the horns are figured 

 (vol. i., p. 256, in the English translation) would appear to be Grant's 



