1879. | Geography and Travels. 661 
Mr. Johnston died from dysentery, at Berobero in Khutu, 130 
miles from Dar-es-Salaam, on the 28th of June. 
We have also to record the death, on the 1oth of July last, of 
the Rev. Dr: Mullens, who left England in April of this year to 
reorganize the Tanganyika Mission of the London Missionary 
Society. 
The Academy states that the Universities’ Mission in Eastern 
Africa have recently established a new station at Newala on the 
river Ruvuma, forty miles nearer lake Nyassa than their original 
settlement at Masari. 
he Abbé Debaize arrived at Ujiji on April 2d. He intends to 
establish a depot in the Uzighé country at the north end of lake 
Tanganyika. He then expects to be able to establish another 
station at the mouth of the Aruwimi, on the Congo—a very bold 
and hazardous undertaking. He will then explore the countries 
between the southern end of the Albert Nyanza and lake Tan- 
ganyika. It is much to be desired that the very. good fortune 
that has so far attended him will continue to be enjoyed by this 
intrepid and skillful leader of the French Scientific Expedition. 
The Belgian Expedition was, at last accounts, concentrated at 
Tabora, where they expected to remain until the end of the rainy 
season in May, Anentomological collection has been forwarded 
by Dr. Dutrieux. The Belgian Society have chartered a steamer 
to take out supplies for the expedition to the mouth of the 
Congo. A small steamer in sections, three steam launches and 
three flat bottomed boats, none of which will draw more than a 
foot of water, are also sent. This little flotilla is commanded by 
Capt. Loesewitz, who has a crew of forty seamen accustomed to 
a tropical climate and engaged for three years. It is hoped thus 
to reach a point where M. Cambier and his party can communi- 
cate with them. It is further reported that Mr. H. M. Stanley, 
after having made rapid surveys of the streams emptying on the 
east coast near Zanzibar, and engaging a large number of his old 
followers has left Zanzibar,and is expected to take command of 
this section of the Belgian expedition.. 
The French Algerian Missionary parties have each reached 
their respective destinations on the Victoria Nyanza and the Tan- 
ganyika lake. The Victoria party are reported to be very desti- 
tute. They have heard of the arrival of the Church Missionary 
Society’s reinforcements at Uganda from Egypt and the Nile. 
Another band of priests is to leave Algeria shortly to join their 
companions. 
The Church Missionary Society has established a permanent 
Station at Mpwapwa, where they have twenty-five acres of land 
under cultivation. This is topographically the most important 
place between the coast and Unyanyembe, as all the caravan roads 
converge to it. Its elevation above the sea is 860 metres. Two 
more of the agents of this society have reached the southern 
