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re Vas Geographical Notices. 
AFRICA, 
Bg Barth's Travels. Dr. Vogel. neue attention is now di- 
neg rected toward Africa ie all civilized ae as and explora- 
tions are in progress at numerous point e pu oo 
Germany and England and the reprint i in og es of the 
three volumes of Dr. Barth’s Travels in North an Central ‘ 
Africa, followed immediately by the publication of Dr, Living: 
stone’s work on his journey andy residence in South “Wee gives 
especial interest to all expeditions on that con These 
important volumes being generally accessible it is. bation ary 
to state here their character. It is however desirable that stw 
dents should know that the relations of Barth's work to other 
Sage and cotemporaneous journies are well shown in Map 
the English EF but this and all the other care of 
that sdition are omitted in the American reprint, An outline 
map only, which Se nally appeared months ago in Peten 0 
gem Sa is given in the New York editi ‘ 4 
Kiepe w Wand-Atlas, Lieferung 2, nbadicl the more 
Secpatont of Barth’ 8 topographical determinations. So toal 
extent does a map in the new Encyclopedia ety illustrat: 
gis po article on Africa which is attributed to Dr. 
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esting matter not before ublished, in respect to 
dence in Timbucktu bit iger to Gogo. 
They are printed in Petermann’s Mittheil., vol. iii, Nos. 9 and _ 4 
in advance of the publication of the fourth and fifth volumes q 
els. 
Hopes are still entertained that Dr. Vogel, one of Barth's com 
panions, was not murdered as reported, but is still-alive. Diree- 
: tions have been forwarded by the British Government to their . 
Consul at Chartum directing him to make - possible inquiries 
in respect to the fate of this intrepid trave ot 4 
On the other hand, letters have been eels in England an) 4 
German y fro m Cairo, mentioning the arrival of an Envoy 
the Sult Sultan of Dar Fur, who states that Vogel was murde 
adai by command of the prince of Wadai eal 
Later dates say that Baron Neimann, who has lately ris 
traveling in Arabia, having heard that Vogel was ye in imp 
onment at Wadai, had determined to 20 and ascertain 
7. Livingstone’s return to Africa.—Dr. Livingstone i 
nounced will return immediately to South Africa. Hi 
Operations there is thus stated in Sir R. I. Mu rchison’s 
Address before the Roy. Geog. Soc. of London 
he returns to Sine and Tete in the spring of 18 
of the healthy season, and after he hast 
