Co, and, as this name is both short and pretty, it may be hoped tl 
458 The American Naturalist. 
General Notes. 
GEOGRAPHY AND TRAVELS. 
Africa.—Isra, on Brivisn East Arrica.—Although the con 
nent of Africa is now gay with the colors which distinguish the sphen 
of influence of the various European countries, and though it has no 
been crossed and re-crossed in almost every conceivable directio 
there are still considerable areas about which very little is kno 
This is especially true of the regions adjoining and intervening betwe 
the great lakes of the Equator; those vast fresh-water areas ¢ 
known to the ancients, but entirely lost to the moderns until the 
ent generation. The politico-religious troubles in Uganda, which 
endeavored to convert into reasons for the abandonment of that 
try by the British, have directed considerable attention toward th 
region, and Captain Lugard, whose name has been prominent in ti 
recent troubles, has not been slow to furnish information, The Briti 
sphere of influence in this quarter is separated on the north from 
Italian by the river Juba, while to the southwest a line drawn 
the center of the east shore of Victoria Nyanza, to a point on the ¢ 
near the island of Penba marks the edge of the German sphere. 
line is however, bent northward around Kilima njaro, so that the’ 
of that snow-clad elevation is within the German sphere. At 
toria Nyanza the Anglo-German boundary is deflected 
Upon the west, the British protectorate is bounded by the Congo® 
The territory of Uganda stretches along the north and nortl 
shores of the great lake, extending inland as far as Unyoro, 
skirts to the southeast shores of the Albert Nyanza; east 
Uganda toward the Albert-Edward Nyanza, lies the district of 
The whole of the British sphere in northeast Africa has 
name of “ Ibea,” formed from the initials of Imp. British East 
u will persist when the company itself is a thing of the past. 
Captain Lugard’s route to Uganda was from Mombasa to t 
_ Tiver Sabaki, tothe south of Mount Kenia, which is entirely 
British sphere. According to him, the source from which 
Victoria Nyanza derives ite supply of water is among 
