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high, covered with thick black hair, who was caught by some Malagasy 
while asleep on a branch of a tree, and who died five months after his 
capture. He learned a few words, and conveyed the intelligence that 
he had a father and two brothers in the forest. The Betsimisaraka are 
darker than the ruling Hovas, and also hardier. The women are rela- 
tively tall, the men averaging five feet five inches. The dress of the 
men is a grass mat and piece of cloth round the loins, but some of the 
richer wear a white or bright tinted cotton garment called a lamba. 
The women wear a lamba, draped more closely, and fastened by a 
girdle. Both sexes carry charms round the neck, and every native has 
a snuff-box of bamboo or horn. The only weapon is a spear, with a 
flat tail-piece for digging up roots. The houses are built on poles, the 
floor four to eight feet from the ground. There is usually but one 
room ; the ascent is by a notched inclined pole, and there are no win- 
dows or chimneys. 
German East Africa.—According to Dr. K. W. Schmitt (Peter- 
mann’ s Mitteilungen, May, 1889), the greater portion of German East 
Africa is not capable of remunerative cultivation, though there are highly 
fertile tracts, among them the wooded and mountainous region of 
Usambara and the western part of Bordie, and much of the country 
around Kilimanjaro. The country of the Nguru resembles Usambara 
in its geological formation, forests, and numerous small rivers. Use- 
guha and other districts near form a vast waterless steppe, and vast 
steppes with oases of mountains stretch west of Usambara. Western 
Ukami is fertile, but beyond it extends the desolate Mkata steppe. 
Mr. Arnot and Garenganze.—On January 7th of this year, Mr. 
F. S. Arnot read before the Royal Geographical Society an account of 
his wanderings in Africa, from 1881 to that date. With a very slender 
outfit, and without offensive arms, save for hunting, he first crossed 
Africa from Plutal to Bihé and Benguela, reversing Serpa Pinto’s jour- 
ney, and then traveled aross the Central Plateau of the continent to 
the sources of the Congo and Zambezi, discovering a mountainous and 
healthful country. The overflow of the Chobe river during the dry 
season is by Mr. Arnot explained by the nature of the soil around the 
northern feeders of this river. The porous ground absorbs the early 
rains, and the hills yield up their store towards the end of the latter 
rains. The Ovimbundu, an enterprising people living between Ben- 
guela and Bihé, told our traveller of a country called Garenganze, 
lying north of the Barotse region. This Mr. Arnot resolved to reach. 
The Ovimbundu bring to the Portuguese markets large quantities of 

