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a peculiar people more highly civilized than most other negro 

 tribes. It was visited by Reverend J. J. Brown in 1856-57, 

 who prepared a grammar and dictionary of their language, 

 of great value to ethnologists, with a description of the 

 country and people. In 1889, Reverend A. C. Goode visited 

 the Gaboon, a little to the north of the Congo, and about the 

 same time Heli Chatelain explored the coast of Africa south 

 of the Congo, near Loando, one of the most flourishing settle- 

 ments in Africa, founded by the Portuguese, where they have 

 large plantations and a railroad extending into the interior. 

 Their reports were published in 1891 and 1892. The river 

 Congo was visited by J. M. Camp between 1892 and 1895, 

 who collected many valuable specimens for the Museum, 

 and also by Dorsey Mohun, who sailed up the river to 

 the territory of the Ujiji people in eastern Africa. There is 

 one country in Africa, Morocco, partially civilized, of which 

 we know less than of any other similar country, as its in- 

 habitants oppose the entrance of travelers or any foreigner 

 into their country. Morocco has had a civilization of its own 

 for many centuries, and from there the Moors entered and 

 conquered Spain, and there they found a refuge when driven 

 from Granada. This country was visited in 1889 by Talcott 

 Williams, of Philadelphia, who prepared a most interesting 

 account of his visit for publication by the Smithsonian 

 Institution. 



A number of scientific expeditions have been sent out by 

 our government to witness eclipses of the sun; one in 1889 

 to South Africa to observe the eclipse which took place 

 that year. In this connection the coast of the Congo region 

 was visited by William Harvey Brown, of the National 

 Museum, who later accompanied an expedition sent out by 

 the South African Exploring Company into South Africa, the 

 country of which we have recently heard so much ; for here 



