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the company of missionaries who returned last year. Below these 
are a class of inferior chiefs. The lowest order are the Wadu or 
slaves. Mtesa is much under the influence of the M/ohamzs, who 
are mostly opposed to the admission of foreigners into the king- 
dom 
We learn from the J@tthet/ungen that Dr. Junker returned from 
his journey to the Monbuttu country to his station in Ndoruma’s 
territory in December last. He crossed the Welle river half-way 
between Miani’s Bakangoi and the former capital of Munza. Near 
the latter place he saw the grave of the Italian traveler. re- 
turned through Wando’s land, crossing the Gadde and Bibali 
rivers at their confluence. He finally departed from Ndoruma’s 
on the 7th of January for Bakangoi and was last heard from at 
_ Pulembata in Baria’s country on January 28th. 
West Centrat AFricaA—Dr. Max Buchner failed in his effort 
to explore north of the kingdom of the Muata Yanvo. e only 
reached lat. 7° 22’ S., when the desertion of his porters obliged 
him to return. He arrived at Malange on February 8th. Most 
of his collections were on board of a steamer recently lost in the 
British Channel. 
Dr. Pogge, whose visit to the Muata Yanvo six years ago will 
be remembered, has arrived at St. Paul de Loanda and departed 
for Dondo. 
Herr Flegel, whose trip up the Binué was described in the 
Naturatist for September, 1880, has recently been visiting the 
unknown course of the Niger between Jauri and Say. He found 
navigation obstructed and frequently rendered impossible by beds 
of immense boulders, through which the stream forces its way 
with immense difficulty. 
up than Manyanga. Mr. McCall has determined to proceed to 
Stanley pool by the river, believing that many and perhaps the 
Majority of the intervening falls and rapids can be passed in 
canoes. He has already passed one, the Ntombo Mataka falls of 
Mr. Stanley’s map. as 
Meanwhile the members of the Baptist Missionary Expedition, 
.Messrs. Crudgington and Bentley, have succeeded in reaching 
the pool by following the north bank of the river. After a jour- 
ney of twenty-one days they arrived at Mfwa, near Mankoneh’s 
village at Stanley pool. From here they crossed the pool to Ntamo 
