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Fadasi near the Yabos affluent of the Blue Nile in about E. long. 

 35° 10' N. lat. 9°. He expected to return to Fazogl and journey 

 through the Galla country after the rainy season was over. In 

 this stage of his great journey Mr. Schuver's chief objects are 

 stated to be the determination of the sources of the Sobat and 

 the discovery of the lakes, which are believed to exist on the 



high plateau between the White Nile and Kaffa. Mr. Joseph 



Thomson has recently been exploring the Loende tributary of the 

 Roouma River. No coal was found. The whole country is 

 thickly covered with forest composed chiefly of India rubber 

 trees. The land rises immediately from the shores of the Indian 

 Ocean to an altitude of three hundred feet, and gradually an eleva- 

 tion of three thousand feet is attained. Mr. Thomson now intends 

 to visit the region lying between the sea and Mount Kilimanjaro 

 and extending from Melinda on the north to Pangani on the south. 



The Missionary Expeditions to Lake Tanganyika continue 



to be unfortunate. The Algerian Mission at Urundi, near the 

 head of the lake, reports the murder of three of its members and 

 nearly all the missionaries of the London Missionary Society on 

 the west shore of the lake were incapacitated by illness at last 



accounts. Herr Flegel has succeeded in ascending the Niger to 



Gomba, but the boatman refused to go on to Say. He prooosed 

 to explore Adamawa in search of the sources of the Binue. — -Mr. 

 Stanley succeeded in reaching Stanley Pool in the latter part of July 

 and spent several days there. He confirms the belief expressed by 

 M. de Brazza and the Baptist Missionaries, that the Pool is more 

 than one degree further west than he fixed it in his map. The 

 longitude now given is 15 47' west from Greenwich. The country 

 on the north bank of the Congo is reported to be exceedingly 



healthy. The Atkenaum says : "The expedition which the 



American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.despatched 

 to West Africa a little more than a year ago, appears to have 

 made fair progress. The object is to found an extensive American 

 mission ontheBihe plateau as that field of labor is entirely distinct 

 from those worked by European agencies. The party arrived at 

 Benguela in due course and afterwards took up their abode at 

 Calumbella, twelve miles off, and were delayed there till March 

 nth, chiefly owing to difficulties about porters, which appear to 

 be as great there as on the eastern side of the continent. Start- 

 ing at last on the day named, they made what is, for African 

 traveling, a rapid march to- Bailunda, accomplishing the two 

 hundred miles in fifteen days. Mr Bagster and his companions 

 settled here for a month to await the arrival of stores from the 

 coast before moving on to Bihe, some fifty miles distant. In 

 the middle of April it became evident tint Mr. Bagster must go 

 to the coast and hurry on matters. He accordingly left his com- 

 panions at Bailunda to study the Ambunda language and re- 

 turned to Benguela." Later intelligence informs us of his having 



