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Apfuru village, 1° 31’ 40” S; deserted spot, 0° 14’ N., 12° 177 
30° E; Nghimi, 1° 37/56” S., 11° 23’ E.. The places are in the 
basin of the Ogowé with the exception of Obemba which is in 
that of the Congo. Four rivers crossed between 1° 30’ S. and o° 
30’ N. latitude flow eastward. Obemba is on the Alima, a pow- 
erful river which was navigated down to 12° 32’.. The longitudes . 
are reckoned from Paris. 
Turning now to the eastern coast of the “ Dark Continent,” 
we find still more to record in the researches and enterprises 
undertaken both by scientific and religious societies. A survey 
is being made by the Portuguese for a railroad from the Delagoa 
bay to the Transvaal. The opening of the road from Dar-es-Sa- 
laam to lake Nyassa is progressing favorably. In December forty 
miles of the route had been traced out and no serious difficulties 
encountered. The dreaded tsetse-fly does not prevail in this re- 
gion and bullocks and donkeys were employed in the work. Mr. 
Keith Johnston and his companion Mr. Thomson arrived at Zan- 
zibar on the 5th of January. During a short detention at Aden 
the latter made an exploratory trip to Somali-land and he has sent 
ney to Nyassa. Since the death of his old master, Chuma has 
had much experience of travel in the country east of Nyassa. 
For recent additions to our knowledge of that lake and its sur- 
roundings we are indebted to reports in the London Academy. 
It states that at a meeting of the Society of Arts a paper by Mr. 
Cotterill “ On the Opening out of the Districts to the North of 
Lake Nyassa,” was read, in which this country, walled in by the 
great Kondi mountains—believed to be more than 12,000 feet 
high—is spoken of as among the most beautiful and fertile tracts 
in Africa. Only among the Himalayas is scenery found at all 
comparable to that of the Kondi country. Mr. Johnston is espec- 
ially instructed to examine this range of mountains thoroughly, 
their elevation, extent, the passes through them, etc. It consti- 
