690 General Notes. [ September, 
the banks being overflowed at this period for a long distance in- 
land. The Yarita or Blackstock mountain rises abruptly from the 
plain near here and appears to have been confounded by Dr. Barth 
with the Atlantika, which is stated by the natives to be a long 
distance south. The people on this part of ap river were found 
to be friendly, quiet and industrious, and well c 
he river has many bends, is very rocky ani frequently the 
navigation is very difficult and dangerou 
The Henry Venn reached her laest point at Gurua, on Sep- 
tember 4th, but the launch went eight or nine miles beyond to 
Ribago, about a mile from a range of mountains named by the 
party after Baroness Burdett Coutts. “ Magnificent mountains, 
looking in the distance like a large palace with the center of the 
building higher than the rest. The finest scenery of the whole 
river was just about here. I was exceedingly sorry to have to 
turn back, the country being so beautiful ; and the people treating 
us like old d not the least alarmed when we approached 
with the steame 
The chief o1 Guns told them that canoes could only be used 
during two or three months in the year. The Kebbi, one of the 
main branches of the Upper Binué was distant about two and a 
half days by land, and eight days distant the Binue “comes over 
mountains” in the Gunderi country. On the next day the river 
beginning to fill rapidly the Henry Venn started on her return 
down the river and reached Djen in three days, and Lukoja on 
ts 
flat level of po more dion enty miles from the large wih ei of Demm + 
which according to Barth, is in aie communication with the western branch of t e 
ha ; 
would keep up a regular annual intercourse between the great basin of the Chad 
and the Atlantic. An almost oae S EORR has been opened rr 
ture herself, for, from the mouth o! a Kw o the confluence of the river Binué 
with the oe Kebbi, there is a natural pa inal navigable without further obstruc- 
tion for boats of about four feet in de epth, and the Mayo Kebbi feels. in its present 
ikw state, seems to be navigable for mia, or flat-bottomed boats like those or 
the natives, which I have no doubt may, during the highest state of ie inundation, 
Dr. Vogel was struck with that 
. go as ig a Dawa in the Tuburi country, w where 
large shee 
proceeding to join ‘the large ngaljam of Demmo, so that there would exist a real 
bifurcation between the basin of the ines and that of the Chad. But even if this 
should not be the case, the breadth of the water- -parting between these two * basins at 
Ses allen: 
i tawapi ie 
2 The Niger.—Ed. 
