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that he had entered, Mr. Sharpe explored the salt-swamp, and found it 
rich in large game. Lake Bangweolo is placed at 4260 feet above sea- 
level; thus, as the sources of the Chambezi are only 4400 feet, the fall 
of that river must be very slight. Our traveller states that the prac- 
tice of maiming the person is rife among the natives southwest of Tan- 
ganyika, among whom the Wa-Wemba are perhaps thé worst in this 
respect. 
The visitor to Mshidi from the west, was Lieutenant Paul Le Marinel, 
the service of the Congo State. The route necessitated the crossing of 
the Sankuru, Lomami, and Lualaba basins. The first is situated 
further to the east than has before been supposed, and the travellers 
discovered the Luembe, an affluent of the Lubilash, itself a tributary 
ofthe Sankuru. The source of the Lomami was found in 8° 45’ B. and 
24° 55 E. long; the river occupies a long narrow basin, running 
almost due north and south for 750 miles. During the whole of this 
course it does not stray more than a degree from a straight course, and 
it receives only two important tributaries, the Lurimbi and the 
~ Lukassi. South of the plateau in which the Lomami rises, is a district 
named Samba, with a most European aspect. Marinel gives Bunkeia 
as the name of Mshidi’s capital. East of the Lualaba the country is 
mountainous. 
AFRICAN Norrs.—One of the chief discoveries of Dr. Stuhlmann, 
who last year accompanied Emin Pasha into his old Equatorial prov- 
ince, was the river Kifu, which is stated to have a course of 250 miles 
before it falls into Lake Albert-Edward, and isthus the most southerly 
source of the Nile yet known. Dr. Stuhlmann started from Kafure, on 
the Muta, a tributary of the Kangere, on the west shore of Victoria 
Nyanza, descended to the Kagere, then crossed the Mpororo Moun- 
tains to the Ruchuru and to Lake Albert-Edward ( Mwutanzige ) at 
Vichumbi (0° 44’ S., 2850 feet). The country to the south was a vast 
savannah with mountains in the distance, among which Kisigali, 13,000 
feet, seems to be the highest. Beyond this is the active voleano of 
Virungo Viagongo. Along the west shore of the lake the mountains 
approach almost to the edge. From Karevia he attempted to ascend 
the snowy mountain (probably a peak of Ruwenzori), and reached 
_ 12,500 feet. He found bamboo and grasses from 3850 to 5350 feet ; 
‘colocasia beans, grass, and the upper settlements up to 6700; then 
deciduous forests with Erica and bamboo to 8530 feet, followed by a 
belt of Erica and Vaccinium to 11,800, above which, to the snow line 
at 13,000 feet, the vegetation was reduced to mosses, lichens and 
