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as human habitations; also some human skulls. Arriving at 43° 30’ south, at 
the foot of the Andes, I found some Indians, and some days afterward, I contin- 
ued my course to the North. I explored the banks of the lake Mahuel-Napz, 
where I found some grottoes containing bones. Here, at the western part of the 
lake, some Araucanien Indians took me prisoner—brought into the presence of 
the principal chief, whom I had known in my voyage of 1875, I was passed to a. 
council of war, and after three days of feasting, I was condemned to death. — 
‘¢ God was angry, and the heart of a Christian must be sacrificed to Him.”” Two: 
days afterward, I escaped in the night, with my domestic and interpreter. We 
constructed a raft, and after two nights and seven days of travel, through the ra- 
pids, we reached the Argentine encampment. My companions, whom I had left 
in a hospitable Patagonian village, informed by a friendly Indian, had saved my 
anthropologieal collection and my botanical gatherings—I was able to save on my 
person a part of my journal and some astronomical observations made at twelve 
different places. Arrived at Buenos Ayres, I was sent, on recommendation of 
physicians, to Europe. a8 ci ** ac Session closed at 10.30. 
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THE KHEDIVE’S GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY. 
(FROM L’EXPLORATION. ) 
The session of June 11th was well attended, considering the terribly hot 
weather. It was devoted, as announced by the order of the day, to a conference 
with Dr. Zucchinetti, who left Cairo in the month of January, to make an excur- 
sion to the provinces of Bahar-el-Gazar and Bahar-el-Arab, thence toa part of 
Darfur, and of Kordofan, and also to that region of Nubia situated to the south 
of Obeida, a country as yet scarcely known. 
He commenced his discourse by exposing the vast project he had conceived 
of traversing Africa as far as its southern extremity, for the purpose of studying 
it from a statistical and scientific standpoint, and for placing it in condition to 
contribute to that grand activity, in which intelligent Europe desires to place this. 
part of the globe, heretofore so much neglected. 
He then traced briefly, the line followed from Cairo to Khartoom, skirting 
the Nile, from Khartoom to Chiri along the White Nile as far as the third degree 
of latitude, where he was stopped by unexpected difficulties; also sketched the 
route of his return from Chiri to Gaba-Sciambia, thence to the West, to the Ma- © 
_cracas, the Niam-Niams, the Gouro-Gouras on the Bahar-el-Arab, to Sciacca, to 
Fasher, to Obeida in Nubia, to Khartoom, to Djeddah and to Suez. 
He interrupted the recital by quoting some notes, made in the course of his 
voyage, which excited the nist lively interest. The Doctor spoke lengthily of 
_Khartoom, Lake Noo and of the Leds (falls) which arrest the navigation of the 
river, and of the way to avoid them. He then gave a description of the Egyp- 
