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intermarry with the Bushmen. Again, two Portuguese of Loanda described 

 to me a people in 12° South as Bushmen, but I did not see them. 



Mr. Galton : I might mention in corroboration of Dr. Livingstone's 

 report of a gradual desiccation of the Bechuana country, that the Damaras 

 entertain a precisely similar belief. They say that within the existing 

 generation, their country has become dried up to a marked extent ; hence, 

 without doubt, this same physical phenomenon affects the entire breadth of 

 Southern Africa. 



Dr. Livingstone : You not only see remains of ancient rivers all through 

 the country, but you find actually the remains of fountains ; you see holes 

 made in the solid rock, where the water has fallen, when flowing out of these 

 fountains, and you find in the sides of some of the holes, pieces of calcareous 

 tufa, that have been deposited from the flowing of the water. 



Professor Owen : I have listened with very intense interest to the 

 sketches of those magnificent scenes of animal life, that my old and most 

 esteemed friend, Dr. Livingstone, has given us. It recalls to my mind the 

 conversation I had the pleasure to enjoy with him in the Museum of the 

 College of Surgeons, seventeen years ago. I must say, that the instalment 

 which he has given us of his observations on animal life this evening, more 

 than fulfils the highest expectations that I indulged of the fruit that science 

 would receive from his intended expedition. It has, so far, exceeded all our 

 expectations ; but it is not only in reference to those magnificent pictures of 

 mammalian life, — that reference is to those new forms of that peculiar family 

 of ruminants, the antelopes ; but it is to those indications of the evidence of 

 extinct forms of animal life which interest me still more. I hope some frag- 

 ments will yet come to us of those accumulated petrified remains of animals, 

 which it has been Dr. Livingstone's good fortune, among many very wonderful 

 and unique opportunities of observing nature, to have seen. 



Mr. J. Macqueen, F.R.G.S., observed — Lacerda does not give either the 

 longitude or the latitude of Tete. He gives the latitude of Maxenga to the 

 north of Tete, 15° 19' South, the estimated distance to which from Tete, 

 according to the rate of time in travelling, places Tete, by my calculation, in 

 16° 20' South lat. Dr. Lacerda gives the latitude of the Isle of Mozambique, 

 at the western entrance of the Lupala, 16° 31' South. Dr. Livingstone gives 

 it 16° 34', a concordance which proves the accuracy of both. Dr. Lacerda's 

 accuracy, thus established, is of great importance, because he gives us two 

 important astronomical observations far to the northword. The first, at 

 Mazavamba, 12° 33' South lat., and 32° 18' East long., and 20 miles south 

 of the Arroanga of the north, 260 miles from Tete, which is the same river as 

 that designated the Loangua by Dr. Livingstone, at its junction with the 

 Zambesi. The second observation was made at Muiro Achinto, now called 

 Chama, lat. 10° 20' South, and long. 30° 2" East, from which point Gamitto's 



