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;. -monition of Arab, I'.crher, 

 n Mohammedan and part 

 ro tril.es In- enumerated 

 e:i distinct iialimialitii -s. 



; this part df (Vittral Africa, 

 though laivc, arc all of ivri-ut origin. Not one 

 of tin -in has exited .st-venty-livo years. !>>- 



ling the Hoime iii a dug-out, after p 



! pn.vineo of the Fcllatah empire, 

 Mr. R.-lill'- arrived at tlie English colony of 

 Lokoia on tin- i2sth of March, 1M17; hut finding 

 that it would ho five or six months before tho 

 English stoaiiu-r would arrive, ho loft Lokoia 

 April iM, ascended the Niger or Kwarra to 

 Rabba, and thciico crossed tho forests to Ilorine, 

 . of Yortiba, and made his way to 



M-I at I.agos whence, after a few days' 



> sailed for Liverpool, in which city ho 

 arrived in July. 



Geographical science has owed much to the 

 zeal and intelligence of missionaries. In Africa 

 this has lieon particularly noteworthy. Living- 

 stone, Motlat, Kills, Savage, Bushnell, Ilornber- 



.nd others, have made valuable additions 

 to our geographical knowledge. Recently, in 

 Southwestern Africa, three German mission- 



Me-srs. Hugo and Josaphat Hahn, and 

 Richard I'.rciincr, have brought to light many 

 interesting facts in relation to that portion of the 

 continent lying between 19 and 32 8. lat., and 

 29 and 82 W. long, from Greenwich. This re- 

 gion, which they call HereroLand, had only been 



i by Anderson in his hunting expedition in 

 1858, and by Smuts in 18GO-'64 while Baines, 

 in 18G1, had passed through the southern por- 

 tion. The coast is sandy for twenty miles or 

 more, but beyond this, rise ranges of moun- 

 tains of wonderful bounty to a height of about 

 8,000 feet. The people arc copper-colored, 

 but with line forms and features, of good stat- 



nd curly but not woolly hair, and hav- 

 ing no resemblance to the negro races. They 

 are a joyous, happy people, of considerable in- 

 telligence. They are nomadic and pastoral, 

 having large herds of cattle and sheep. 

 Their religion is not fetichism, like that of the 

 tribes around them, but a fire-worship. 

 Their rulers are also priests, and their daughters 

 are charged with keeping the sacred tire al- 

 ways burning. 



: Mauch, a German naturalist, completed, 

 in .la nuary, 1807, a tour of exploration north- 

 ward from the South African Republic to Mo- 

 silikatse's kingdom and the southern aflluents 

 of the Zambesi. The territory over which he 



! lies to the east of that explored by 

 Livingstone, and he touched the route of that 

 traveller only at one point, in Uamangwata. 

 This tour was made rather in the interests of 

 natural history than geography; but Herr 

 Mauch has, since his return to the Cape, again 



,1 for the same region, supported by the 

 German ireographical societies and their friends. 

 Two French otiicers, M. Coignet and M. Al- 

 fred Grandidier, during the early part of 1867, 

 explored the northeast, south, and southea.-t 



coasts Of Madaga-ear, mid added somcth' 

 our topographical knowledge of that ii. 1 

 ing i-land, though very little to our information 

 concerning its people. The l!i-hop of Mauritius 

 also \ Nited, in September, iHO.j, the rm:' 

 province of the island, and communie. 

 the Royal Geographical Society, in 1807, a 

 detailed description of its production.', inhabit- 

 etc. 



The explorations in Australia and the 



search for the remains of Loiehardf.- party are 

 still kept up, though with bnt faint traces of 

 success. Mr. I'uncan Mclntyre, the leader of 

 the largest of the.sc search exp< <.! of 



fever, en route, in June, 1866. "We have some 

 statistics of the Australasian Colonies for 1866, 

 which will be of interest. The population of 

 all the colonies was 1,644,000, of which 650,- 

 000 were in Victoria, 430,000 in New South 

 Wales, 200,000 in New Zealand, 170,000 in E 

 Australia, 97,000 in Queensland, and 97,000 

 in Tasmania. The imports of all the colonies 

 were 34,937,987, and the exports 30,433,- 

 438. The exports of South Australia and Tas- 

 mania alone exceeded their imports. The ex- 

 port of gold was 11,165,331 ; of wool, 8,006,- 

 820; of copper ore, 618,472 ; of corn, 1,335,- 

 748; and of coal, 274,303. The number of 

 horses in all the colonies was 550,874 ; of horned 

 cattle, 3,727,175 ; and of sheep, 29,293,744. 



GEORGIA. While the reconstruction meas- 

 ures of March last were before Congress, and 

 when the first Act had actually passed that 

 body, a mass meeting was held in Atlanta " to 

 take into consideration the duty of Georgia 

 in the pending crisis. The committee ap- 

 pointed to draw up a series of resolution 

 prcssive of the sense of the meeting, reported 

 in favor of a prompt acquiescence in the con- 

 gressional plan of restoration. The preamble 

 declared it to be a " well-established and fun- 

 damental principle of the Government of the 

 United States," that the people of the Southern 

 States had deprived themselves of governments 

 and could be reinvested with them only by the 

 "law-making power of the United States." 

 The resolutions declare that restoration ought 

 to be no longer postponed ; that the indiscretion 

 of the people had already caused delay, to the 

 serious prejudice of their true interests; that 

 now they should "promptly and without hesi- 

 tation accept tho plan of restoration recently 

 proposed by Congress;" that there are per- 

 sons enough of integrity and ability in every 

 county not debarred from voting and holding of- 

 fice, to perform all the functions of government ; 

 and that all that have the right to do so, should 

 enter " in good faith upon the duty of insti- 

 tuting for Georgia a legal State government." 

 They furthermore proclaim a sincere purpose 

 " to heal the wounds indicted by the unhappy 

 past,'' and close with a "hearty and cordial 

 invitation" to all the citizens of other States 

 to settle among them, "assuring them, in the 

 name of every thing that is -acred, that they 

 shall be received and treated as friends and as 



