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| published his preliminary report. His conclusion is that no 
_ navigable channel is possible between the Tuyra and the Atrato 
without locks or tunneling. 
Dr. A. Le Plongeon has been engaged for some time in re- 
_ searches in Yucatan among the ruins of Chichen Itza, Uxinal and 
Aké, and those of the once famous islands of Azumel and Mu- 
_ jeres, and has made many interesting discoveries. He has taken 
many valuable photographic views of ruins, structures and hiero- 
_ glyphics, and discovered a remarkable statue which was buried 
_ twenty-one feet in the ground. He also discovered some other 
figures in the Island of Mujeres; he thinks that relations formerly 
-existed between the people of Yucatan and the inhabitants of the 
islands on the west coast of Africa, as he finds many things re- 
sembling the Guanches, the early inhabitants of the Canary 
Islands, whose mummies are yet found in the caves of Teneriffe, 
and in other islands of the group. 
In South America Major D. A. Rivara and M. A. Werthemen 
have been exploring in the mountains of Peru, M. Weiner in 
Bolivia, and Signor F. P. Moreno in Patagonia. They have been 
measuring the heights of mountains and seeking the sources of 
rivers. Many interesting facts have been learned. 
There have been many explorers in Asia; in Palestine, Persia, 
’ Turkestan, Thibet, China, India and Japan. Herr E. Knipping. 
as been engaged in extensive surveys in Japan, and has com- 
_ pleted a large map of the country, which will soon be published. 
_ He was last surveying a route from Kobi to Tokio, a distance of 
= Over 3000 miles. 
Mr. Wojeikoff completed his meteorological journey round the 
_ world, during the course of which it will be remembered we had 
the pleasure of seeing him at one of our meetings. His last visit 
= Was to India, Java and Japan, and he made an excursion into a 
part of the interior of Japan never before visited by Europeans. 
When I referred to Mr. Stanley in my last address, he had fin- 
ished his expedition to Lake Akengara, south-wést of Lake 
Ukerewe, and was on his way to Lake Tanganika to explore the 
_ country south of the Mwutan Nizige, and north-west of that lake, 
_ in the hope of reaching the Mombutto country at the north, so 
= as to connect his own discoveries with those of Schweinfurth, 
-across the equator. It will be remembered that I mentioned last 
-= year that Lieut. Cameron circumnavigated Lake Tanganika, and 
4 concluded, from his own observations, that he had discovered the 
outlet of the lake in the River Lukuga, flowing from it on the 
_ western side. An ordinary traveler would have been satisfied 
_ with Cameron’s survey and his conclusion as to the outlet, but 
_ Stanley, in the true character of a geographical explorer, deter- 
mined to go round the southern part of the lake himself, and the 
result was that he ascertained by a detailed survey and careful 
soundings that the River Lukuga, instead of flowing out of the 
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