452 Sierra Leone Negotiation.— Australasia. 
as given by Strabo and Eratosthenes. The positions laid down 
by Bruce, in his map, are tolerably accurate, but he has traced 
the limits of the ruins too much to the south. M. Cailliaud 
proposed to remain during the rainy season at Sennaar, with 
the expedition, to take up his residence in the Fazuelo, and to 
proceed afterwards up the Bahr-el-Albiad, or the White River, 
which he will ascend to a certain distance, in order to pro- 
cure information respecting the course of the Niger. The ther- 
mometer was constantly during the month of April as high as 
45 degrees and upwards, and even as high as 48 degrees (43 de- 
grees of Reaumur, exposed no doubt to the sun), M. Cailliaud 
could not discover any remains of the tradition of Queen Can- 
dace, whose dynasty, according to Bruce, were in his time still 
on the throne of Chendy. For a long time our traveller has 
not taken the meridian altitudes of the sun, which is too close 
to the zenith, and he can only determine the latitudes of places 
by means of the moon and stars. 
SIERRA LEONE NEGOTIATION. 
Mr. O’Byrne, sent from Sierra Leone to establish a commer- 
cial intercourse with certain African Chiefs of the interior, has 
entered the country of Limba, by Laiah,’a city distant about se- 
ven leagues from the river which forms the boundary of the coun- 
try of Timmani. His reception was very favourable with all the 
chiefs, one of whom, of Port Logo, accompanied him to Woulla, 
and sent his brother with him to Koukouna. From this last 
place he advanced to the frontiers of Foulah, the chiefs of which 
agreed, in a palaver, to open a commercial correspondence with 
Sierra Leone. It appears that Dacho, King of Sego, was send- 
ing a party to the Governor of Sierra Leone to invite the Whites 
to visit and trade in his kingdom, and had recommended to the 
King of Timbo to provide for the security of such strangers as 
should proceed to Bambarra through the country of Foulah Yal- 
lon. This rendered unnecessary the further advance of Mr. 
O’Byrne. ——- 
AUSTRALASIA. 
Accounts have been received here by the ship Dick, lately arri- 
ved from India, from His Majesty’s brig Bathurst, Capt. King, 
employed in examining the unexplored Coast of Australasia, 
dated off Goulburn Island, on the North Coast of New Holland, 
the 6th of July last ; the ship Dick and brig St. Antonio then in 
company, which the Bathurst had piloted from Port Jackson on 
their way to India, through a most intricate and dangerous navi- 
gation, in which the latter lost two anchors. At the date of the 
letter they had been out six weeks from Port Jackson ; three 
weeks whereof they had been sailing among coral reefs of fright- 
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