406 ; General Notes. [June, 
from the London docks to the north end of the lake by way of 
the Zambesi and Shiré rivers. 
Accounts of the progress of the exploration making on the 
western side of the Nyassa by the Missionaries from Livingstonia 
down to October 30, 1878, have been received in Scotland. The 
left Livingstonia on August 12, 1878, and journeying first 
a south-westerly direction, reached a mountain plateau some 
saat or 5000 feet above the sea-level. They then. traveled 
through an open country, well watered, with a soil composed of 
disintegrated granite. Turning northwards they struck across 
the river Lintippe westwards and traveled for some time through 
a deserted but once populous country, Finally they reached 
hivere’s country, which is open, well watered and populous, but 
entirely devoid of trees. Reaching the coast south of the lake 
Chia they proceeded north along the coast and when last heard 
from had reached Kuta bay—Bandepe on Livingstone’s map. 
The Nature states that the exact position of Blantyre, which 
lies to the east of the Murchison Falls on the Shiré, and was 
never before accurately ade has been found to be S. lat. 
15° 45’ 25” and E. long. 35° 
Ill fortune has continued to h i the Bełgian African Expe- 
dition. Lieut. Wauthier died of dysentery on the 19th of Decem- 
ber last, near lake Chaia, a small body of water some eighty miles 
south-east of Tabora in Unyanyenbe. Dr. Dutrieux was with 
him at his death, but the remaining chief, M. Cambier, when last 
heard from, had passed Tabora on the road to Mcene, M. 
Dutalis has arrived at Zanzibar and will hereafter command the 
expedition. Mr. H. M. Stanley accompanies him and will act as 
At and interpreter. Capt. Popelin will also soon leave Bel- 
m to execute the plan of forming a chain of stations across 
Cette Africa from Zanzibar to the Loango coast. The means 
te important undertaking are supplied by the King of the 
elgians. 
- Another Missionary es — —— Church Mission to the 
Victoria Nyanza, Mr. Penrose, has met with a violent death at the 
hands of the natives. Hem was on bis es to the Nyanza and was 
attacked and murdered at nearly the same time as the death of 
Lieut. Wauthier occurred and near the same ner Chaia. It is 
Unyamalzi. He had so far been most successful, having accom- 
plished his march with = rapidity, without loss either in men, 
supplies, or instruments, was in perfect th. He states 
that the power of the be wanes daily, and their place is being 
taken by the English. The power of the Sultan of Zanzibar is 
4 _ merely nominal. The Sultan reigns but the English Consul goie 
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