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After referring to other fields of geographical interest, he concluded by say- 
ing that when the British Association last met at Swansea a generation had pass- 
ed away. Of the eminent men then present in office, some half-dozen alone re- 
main, and in the retrospect it was so natural to take, the growth of geographical 
information stood out in remarkable prominence. Still— 
‘“The cosmographer doth the world survey,” 
and finds an illimitable field for the improvement of old, or the acquirement of 
new, knowledge. Better methods of instruction, better books, and, above all, 
better maps, are changing the aspect of the study to the young; every traveler 
who settles one question raises others for his successors, so that ‘‘no man can 
find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.” Its perpet- 
ual youth was the charm of their science; might it also be his excuse. 
A vote of thanks was moved to the President for his admirable address. 
Sir Henry Barkly, in moving it, expressed his regret that the section would 
not have the advantage of Sir Henry Lefroy’s presence at any other sitting of 
the section, he being obliged to leave for London to prepare for his immediate 
departure to Tasmania, of which he had been appointed Governor. He was. 
sure they all wished him and his family a pleasant and prosperous voyage. 
[Cheers. | 
The motion was seconded by Mr. F. Galton and carried by acclamation. 
OTHER PROCEEDINGS. 
The President then read some letters of a very interesting character from 
Mr. Joseph Thomson, received by the Royal Geographical Society’s East African 
Expedition. The following are passages from this correspondence :— 
‘““KAREMA, OR MuSAMWIRA, LAKE TANGANYAKA, March 27, 1880. 
‘‘T have failed in my attempt to reach Jendwe by way of the Lukuga and 
Kabuire. I left Kasegna (or Mtowa) on the roth of January, with all the confi- 
dence of a young lion which had not yet known a reverse, and six weeks after I 
returned to the same place as meek asa lamb. From the very first I had great 
difficulties with the men, as they believed I was taking them to Namguena, where 
they would be eaten up. They tried every means in their power to throw obsta- 
cles in my way and retard my movements, two of them deserting near Meketo, 
and the others threatening to do the same. For six days I continued my course 
along the Lukuga, in spite of their opposition, but I was then obliged to give in. 
It flows in a general west-northwest direction to that place, and then about west 
into the great westerly bend of the Congo, all the way through a most charming 
valley, with hills rising from 600 to 2,000 feet in height. Above the lake the 
current is extremely rapid and quite unnavigable for boats or canoes of any de- 
scription, owing to the rapids and rocks. From Makalumbi I crossed the Lukuga 
into Urua, and struck southwest for the town of Kiyombo, who is the chief of 
all the Warna on the eastern side on the Congo. I found out, however, I had 
only escaped difficulties with my men to fall into ten times worse with the Warna.- 
