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complishing this extraordinary journey in the space of three years, 
at the cost of rather more than $25,000. The French explorer, 
M. Savorgnan de Brazza, is again pursuing his explorations on 
the Ogowé, and at last accounts (July 14th) had started for the 
Congo after establishing a station at the junction of the Passa and 
Ogowe. His former companion, Dr. Ballay, is about to rejoin 
him, and the French section of the International Association sends 
out with him M. Mizon, who will establish a new station on the 
Ogowé. M. de Brazza had engaged 750 men for this latter ex- 
pedition, who will ascend the Ogowé as far as the Alima, taking 
with them, in canoes, the sections of a steam launch. Major 
von Mechow, who was sent out by the German Government 
eighteen months since to explore in Angola, left Malange on the 
12th of June last, and arrived on the banks of Quango on the 
1gth of July, at a point below the great water falls, and consider- 
ably beyond the limits of Messrs. Ivens and Capello’s explora- 
tions. Although the expedition was everywhere well received 
observations taken. Two other Germans, Messrs. Pogge and 
Wissman, have also gone to Angola, in order to penetrate into 
the kingdom of the Muata Yanvo, whom Dr. Pogge visited in 
1875. Dr. Oscar Lenz, who was despatched by the same 
society in the latter part of 1879, has succeeded in reaching 
Timbuktu. He started from Tangier on December 22, 1879, in 
company of Hadj Ali, nephew of the celebrated Abd-el-Kader, 
and was disguised as a Turkish doctor of Constantinople. He 
met with a friendly reception at Timbuktu. He arrived at 
Medina, Senegal, on November 2, 1880. Of the three Europeans 
who have formerly visited Timbuktu, Major Lang (1826) was 
murdered; M. René Caillié two years later brought the first 
accounts of it to Europe, and Dr. Barth, in 1853-4, spent some 
months there. 
