590 General Notes. [July, 
GEOGRAPHY AND TRAVELS! 
AFRICAN Exptoration.—The April number of the Royal Geo- 
graphical Society’s Proceedings notices an interesting report 
received by the London Missionary Society from their mis- 
sion at Mtowa, on the western shore of Lake Tanganyika, in 
Northern Uguha, concerning the country and its people. Uguha 
is divided by the Lukuga river into two districts, northern and 
southern. Northern Uguha has a population of probably from 
15,000 to 20,000, and the largest village is Ruanda, with from 500 
to 600 houses. Mtowa, near which the missionaries have settled, 
isa village of the average size, containing ninety houses and some 
300 inhabitants. It is enclosed by a semi-circle of hills, which 
start from Southern Ugoma, trend inland for some distance, and 
reach the lake shore at Cape Kahangwa. Beyond these hills 
stretches the plain of Ruanda, watered by several small streams, 
of which the Lugumba is the only one of importance. The do- 
mestic animals of Uguha are goats, sheep and fowls, but some of 
their chiefs possess pigeons obtained from Marungu or Ujjji. The 
only cattle are those belonging to the mission, though some are 
occasionally brought across the lake to be taken into the interior. 
There are said to be numerous wild animals in the hills to the 
to precedence in the arrangement of the houses, the fear Se - 
slaves, living in one part and the Wabangt, or freemen, in another. 
1 Edited by Exuis H. YARNALL, Philadelphia. 
