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litter, but has made a good recovery, and has left England 

 in fair health. The following outline of his route, given to 

 Reuter's Agency, is published in the ' Times ' of Nov. 16th : — 

 " We left Berbera at the end of April with a caravan 

 consisting of 68 men, all armed with Sniders and Winches- 

 ters, and 56 camels, which were afterwards increased to 98, 

 our object being to explore certain districts of Somaliland 

 between Berbera and the river Chibele. During our stay in 

 Africa we made three expeditions from the coast. The first, 

 to the east of Berbera towards the Gobari plains and the 

 range of the Golis, occupied three weeks. The second, to the 

 south of Berbera, via Mandera and the Jerato pass of the 

 Golis range to the south of the Toyo plain, lasted six weeks. 

 The third expedition occupied over two months. On this 

 journey we went from Hargeisa (about 100 miles from 

 Berbera) and crossed the Hand Desert by a route discovered 

 by me over the Maredleh Plain to a point 20 miles from 

 Milmil. Altogether we were in the interior six months, and 

 returned to Aden in October.^' 



Mr. Whyte's new Expedition to the Mountains of North 

 Nyasaland. — Mr. Alexander Whyte, F.Z.S., writing from 

 Karon^a, at the north end of Lake Nyasa, on July 16th, 

 says ^ : — " I have just returned from my sojourn of eighteen 

 days on the highest range of the Deep Bay-Karonga 

 mountains, and am much pleased with the collections 

 made there. AVe all suffered from the cold, and had some 

 bad cases of sickness ; but, on the whole, the boys worked 

 well, and I have got together a larger collection tlian I have 

 ever made on any previous expedition. 



" The flora of this range proved most interesting, resem- 

 bling that of jNllanje, yet differing from it in many respects. 

 I failed to find any trace of a conifer ; but, on the other 

 hand, the range is richer in heaths than Mlanje is. I fancy 

 the three principal peaks of the range, to the tops of which 

 I went, rise to an altitude of fi'om 7000 to 8000 feet above the 

 sea-level ; and I thoroughly explored this end of the range, 



» See Brit. Centr. Afr. Gaz., Aug. 15th, 1896. 



