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enzaddi, which Captain Tuckey understood to be the name 
of the river at Embomma, are so many concurring cir- 
cumstances which give a favourable though a faint colour 
to the hypothesis of the identity of the two rivers. 
If any further exploration of the Zaire, upwards, should 
be undertaken, Captain Tuckey has sufficiently established 
the fact, that no naval equipment at home can avail in the 
prosecution of this object. All that appears to be neces- 
sary, is that of providing at the Cape de Verde islands a 
dozen or twenty asses and mules, and carrying them in a 
common transport up the river as far as Embomma ; from 
thence to make the best of the way over land direct for 
Condo Yanga, the place which has been assigned by 
Captain Tuckey, as possessing the greatest advantages 
for the necessary preparations for embarking on the river ; 
and these preparations would consist merely in purchasing 
or hiring half a dozen canoes, with the help of two or three 
ship carpenters, converting them into three double-boats, 
or twin-canoes, by a few planks, which would form a con- 
venient platform for the accommodation of the party, the 
animals, and the baggage. In this way they would pro- 
ceed where the river was navigable, and by land, with the 
assistance of the asses and mules, where interruptions oc- 
curred ; and thus they would avoid that degree of fatigue, 
which was unquestionably the principal cause of the death 
of those who fell on the late expedition. On the part of 
the natives, it is now pretty well ascertained, there would 
be no obstruction, unless they are of a very different dis- 
position higher up in the interior, than what Captain 
Tuckey experienced them to be, which is not, as far as 
