42 RECOLLECTIONS Of FORTY YEARS. 



land in 1819, M. Heuglein has pointed out the exist- 

 ence in the peninsula of those of Ouad-Benaka, Wady- 

 Safrah, Wady-Okateb, of Sheba, the royal city on the 

 right bank of the Blue Nile, five leagues from Khar- 

 toum, and those of Khamlim ten leagues further inland 

 to the east. 



" ' M. Heuglein has shown me a pen-and-ink map 

 which was recently sent him by Mr. Eehman, a Pro- 

 testant missionary residing at Moubar, on the Zan- 

 guebar coast. This missionary appears to have 

 collected a good deal of information about an inland 

 sea called Uniamesi, of which there has been no little 

 talk recently, which is said to occupy an area of from 

 twelve to thirteen degrees north to south, and which 

 would in this case be larger than the Black Sea. 



" 4 The existence of this sea was certified to me 

 during my stay at Khartoum by a pilgrim from 

 Mecca, who inhabits Central Africa, and who gave 

 Mahmoud Pasha, one of the "Viceroy's ministers, par- 

 ticulars corresponding to those upon Mr. Eehman' s 

 map. This pilgrim added that he had seen larger 

 vessels on the Uniamesi than that in which he had 

 sailed down the Bed Sea. 



" * I beg to place before the Academy a specimen of 

 india-rubber from the Djours country, which was 

 brought me by M. de Malzac, and this is, I think, the 

 first which has been discovered in any part of Africa. 

 I also send a fragment of colossal convolvulus which 

 sometimes reaches a length of thirty feet, a new 



