470 KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE. 
OTHER CONGO EXPEDITIONS. 
Besides Stanley’s expedition some other attempts are also being made to 
explore the great Congo. Mr. McCaul, of the Congressional Inland Mission, 
has already left England for the west coast in order to make his way into the 
interior by the northern bank of that river, while the Baptist Missionary Society 
have sent out Mr. W. Comber. He left England on April 26, 1879, landed at 
Mussuka, on the Congo, July 2, and reached San Salvador south of that stream. 
He there established a depot, leaving two of his companions, and went on with 
a third to Stanley Pool, above the falls, in order to establish there a second 
station. If he succeeds the mission will attempt to transport a small steamship 
to that navigable part of the Congo, Robert Arthington, of Leeds, having offered 
the society $20,000 in aid of this Congo special mission, and particularly for the 
purchase and perpetual maintenance of a steamer on that river and its affluents. 
He also stipulates for the establishment of mission stations at the mouths of the 
great tributaries, Ukuta and Ikelemba. 
PROPOSED AUSTRIAN EXPEDITION. 
The Vienna Geographical Society has issued an appeal for subscriptions for 
an Austrian expedition, which Dr. Emil Holub has decided on undertaking. Dr. 
Holub intends crossing the whole length of Africa, from south to north. He will 
start from the Cape of Good Hope and penetrate to the Zambesi, thence explore 
the Maruthemambunda territory, the water-shed district between the Zambesi and 
the Congo, visit the lake sources of the Congo, and from there through Danfur 
he will try to reach Egypt. Dr. Holub expects the journey to extend over three 
years. The expenses, he reckons, will amount to about 50,000 florins, 5,000 of 
which he can himself supply. 
M. SIBERIAKOV’S EXPEDITION TO THE YENISEI. 
News has been received from the steamer Oscar Dickson, which, with its. 
proprietor, Siberiakov, on board, set out some time ago to penetrate through the 
Arctic Sea to the Yenisei. The ship and crew on the 19th of September were in 
excellent condition at Kabarova. They had met with great difficulties, and had 
so far been unsuccessful in their object, but were on the following day to make 
a fresh attempt to find a passage through the Sea of Kara. 
A PRIVATE ARCTIC VOYAGER’S EXPLORATIONS. 
A telegram dated Hammersfest, September 25, has been received from Mr. 
Leigh Smith, a private gentleman, on a summer voyage in the Arctic regions in: 
his own steamer. He states that he made Franz Joseph’s land August 14, and. 
