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and it will probably soon lose its Berber cbai'acter, wbicli now makes it so 

 interesting. 



The author gave an account of tlie disturbances wliicb have lately occurred 

 ■within the frontier of Morocco and of his journey to Tlem^en by a new route only 

 just opened to traffic. 



From Tlemfen he visited Sebdou and the mountains of the Beni Snous, where 

 he was hospitably entertained by The Old Woman, as she is affectionately called, 

 the widow of Si Mohammed bin Abdulla, Agha of the Beni Snous, who was 

 murdered by Captain Doineau, chief of the Bureau Arabe of Tlemjen in 1856. 

 The affair created a great sensation at the time. Doineau was convicted and 

 sentenced to death, a penalty commuted to perpetual exile from France. 



2. Recent French Explorations in the Ogoioai-Congo Region.^ 

 Bij Major R. de Lannoy de Bisst. 



3. Biver Niger and Central Sudan Sketches.'^ By Joseph Thomson. 



4. Recent Explorations in the Southern Congo Basil 

 Bij Lieutenant R. Ki^^nd. 



5. A Trader on the West Coast of Africa and in the Interior. 

 Bij Robert Capper, F.R.G.S. 



6. BecJiuanaland. By Captain Conder, R.E. 



7. The Panama Canal.'^ By F. de Lesseps. 



• Published in the ProceeiUiiris of the Royal Geographical Society, Dec. 1886. 

 ^ Published in the Scottish Geographical Magazine, Oct. 188G. 



' Published in the Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society, Nov. 1886. 



* Published in the Scottish Geographical Magazine, Nov. 1886. 



