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Geographical News.—Africa.—J. R. Pigott has recently trav- 
elled up the Tana (Northeast Africa), ten days’ journey beyond the 
farthest point reached by the Brothers Denhardt. Mount Kenia was 
in full sight during the latter part of the journey, and seems to be 
nearer the coast than has been supposed. The country is thinly peo- 
pled, for the inhabitants of the lower course of the river fear the 
Somalis, while those of the upper are in dread of the Wakamba. A 
map of the district traversed is given in the March number of the 
Proc. Roy. Geog. Soc. 
A map of the journey of Mr. Selous in Mashona-land, in the basins 
of the Mazoe and the Mufu, tributaries of the Zambezi on the south, 
is given in a recent issue of the Proc. Roy. Geog. Soc. 
Among recent journeys in South Africa deserves to be mentioned 
that of Mission Superintendent Knothe from Mphome on the Zout- 
pansberg to the land of the Bonjai or Bokharaka, southeast of the 
Barotse country. The Bonjai speak a language akin to the Sesuto, 
and are more skilled in handicrafts than the Bosuto. The brothers 
Posselt, in travelling north of the Limpopo to Simbabye, found certain 
ornaments, among which were three of gray gneiss or syenite, evidently 
in imitation of birds. 
A small map in Petermann’s Mitteilungen, 1890, Part I., shows the 
distribution of the Berber stems in Morocco. About one-half of the 
country is really Arab, stretching from the western limit of Algiers, 
south of the Ref Berbers, to the north coast by Ceuta and Tangier, 
and extending southward to Mogador, and inland to the Atlas. The 
Rif Berber element is composed of the Bezirker-Rif, the Bezirk-er- 
Gart, and the Isnaten, the last bordering on Algeria. The Rifs are of 
mid-stature, strong, broad-shouldered. They live by fishery, and by 
wrecking; and robbery and murder are common. Some enlist as 
Zouaves in the Spanish garrisons on the Morocco coast. The north- 
ern part of the Atlas is occupied by the Berbers, who for the most part 
are unmixed with Arab, and are slender, often over mid-height, and 
uncommonly muscular; the face is long, with a somewhat Roman 
physiognomy, and, though the tint becomes darker toward the south, 
the features preserve the Berber type, save where there is negro 
admixture. The Schloch Berbers, south of the parallel of Mogador, 
inhabit the lowlands as well as the mountains. They are never blond- 
haired like the other Berbers, but are civilized, and given to trade and 
handicrafts. Toward the east they become mingled with negro peo- 
ples, producing the Charatin or Draa. 
