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about ten or twelve days distant. After a few days march they 
reached a great plain bounded by a range of mountains called 
Kondi, running from the eastern side of the lake to the north- 
west. Several rivers intersect the plain running towards the 
Nyassa and it is a country of remarkable beauty and fertility. By 
a gradual ascent the height of 6000 feet above the sea was reach- 
ed. Finally, passing through forests of gigantic bamboos, they 
crossed the Kondi range at a height of 8800 feet above the sea, 
and found themselves on a great plateau 7000 feet high called 
Uwanji, a splendid cattle country. Here they soon came to 
Merere’s town. From this point other plains intersected by man 
streams could be seen. They suffered much during the remainder 
of the journey from scarcity of food and shortly ‘before reaching 
the Ujiji caravan route, 350 miles from Bagamoyo, Captain Elton, 
who had been failing rapidly, died. 
The rest of the party arrived safely at Zanzibar, after a jour- 
ney of four months and a half from Livingstonia. A full ac- 
count of the journey, under the title 
tures among the Lakes and Mountains of Eastern Africa,” will 
soon be published. 
A direct road from Dar-es-Salaam to the lake has already been 
begun at the expense of one or two private persons. The Royal . 
Geographical Society has decided to dispatch a carefully-organ- 
ized expedition commanded by Mr. Keith Johnston to explore 
this region, and contemplates pushing their explorations to the 
southern end of Lake Tanganyika, a further distance of 190 miles. 
The expedition is expected to leave England early in Novem- 
er. Some weeks will be spent in scientific investigation in the 
coast regions near Zanzibar. A geologist has om appointed as 
assistant and second in command to Mr. Johnston. The route to 
Livingstonia, the Scotch Mission settlement at the southern end 
Shire to a point whence the steamer //a/a runs to the new 
colony. 
In connection with the remarks of Mr. Cotterill it may be 
stated that the transport of slaves by sea is being rapidly crushed 
out by the exertions of the British fleet engaged in that service 
on the east coast of Africa. During the last half of 1877 only 
nineteen slaves were captured, while in the previous six months _ 
the number was 263. Two years ago the computed average of 
slaves introduced into Pemba amounted to 1000 a month, but not- 
more than 800 are believed to have been landed during ‘the last 
six months of 1877. The caravans sent down to the coast are 
very small; many were captured and others returned to the inte- 
rior, no market being found for the 
A meeting of geographers and telegraph engineers was 
