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840 The American Naturalist. [September, 
King Menelik, formerly King of Shoa, is now Negus of Abyssinia, 
and the Italians, who favored his pretensions, have succeeded in mak- 
ing advantageous treaties with him, considerably enlarging the area 
placed under the protection of Italy. 
A map of the caravan route from Zeila (British) to Ankobar, show- 
ing the routes followed by various travellers, and marking the bound- 
aries between the Somali tribes and the Afar or Galla, is given in a 
recent issue of Petermanns Mitt. 
The April issue of the Proceedings of the Royal Geographical 
Society contains an account of the explorations conducted by Mr. 
Last, as leader of the expedition to the Namuli Peaks, and the narra- 
tive is aided by a map of the part of East Africa lying between the 
Rovuma and the Zambezi. : 
Dr. Zintgraff, in his journey from the Cameroons to Adamaua in 
1888-’89, had to force his way through the territory of the Banyanga, 
was compelled to stay three months in the land of the Bali, and in 
April reached that of the Bafut. On account of a threatened attack, 
he had to make his way through a comparatively uninhabited country. 
At Donga his surveys met those of Flegel. On June 11, 1889, he was 
at Ibi, on the Benue, whence he proposed to proceed to Jola, and then 
return to Dali-land. 
Dr. Schweinfurth gives a full account of the excavations carried on 
by Flinders Petrie in the Fayoun, in Pefermanm's Mitteilungen, Part 
II., of this year. 
A. Sharpe, in an account of his trip in the region between the Shire 
and Loangwa rivers, mentions that the Kirk mountains are merely the. 
abrupt edge of the highlands that stretch to the west of the Shire valley. 
'The Oughat or Achewa tribes have to a great extent been driven away 
or enslaved by the Angoni (Zulus), so that the remaining Achewas 
stand in great fear of the Zulus. The names of places in South Africa 
change as the chiefs change: thus Undi, four days west of Lake 
Nyassa, is named from an Achewa chief. 
Petermann s Mitteilungen, 1890, Part I., contains an account of the 
journey of Dr. K, W. Schmid in the Comoro Islands, with a map 
Angasija, or Great Comoro, and of Mohilla. The latter island is entirely 
covered with vegetation, but wherever the rock could be seen it was 
tufa. The whole eastern coast of Angasija is without a harbor, but on 
the east coast there is a good harbor at Mroni Bay, slightly to the 
north of the great volcano. The island extends about 40’ north and 
