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districts. The natives of Ankoli are Wahuma, a fine race apparently 
with affinities to the Galla and Somali, but mingled with Bantu. 
The Tana, a large river south of the Juba, has been navigated by 
Captain E. G. Dundas in the stern-wheel steamer Kenia, to within a 
short distance of the mountain of that name, which was afterward 
ascended to a height of 8,700 feet. The Tana has two mouths, the 
northern one, the Ozi, is not now important, but the entire district 
between it and the Tana mouth is alluvial. The lower portion of the 
river is almost meridianal, but close to the equator a broad westerly 
curve conducts to the congeries of affluents which descend from the 
forest: covered slopes west of Mt. Kenia. The steamer could proceed 
as far as Hameyé, near the equator, at the start of the great bend. 
The peoples met with in the ascent were the Kalindi at the mouth, the 
Ngao, Omoina, Ndera, Guano, Ndura, Sabaki, Malululu, Malakote, 
Wasania, Korokoro, Wandorotu, Murdoi, Wathaka, Mumomi, Mbe, 
Kikoya and}Muea near Mt. Kenia. 
The smaller Sabaki river to the south of the Tana, also has its head- 
waters in the forest belt S. W. of Kenia. The existence of such a river 
as the Tana, navigable through more than three degrees of latitude, 
was until recently pratically unknown. A considerable fall about 
189 south of thejequator, and sixty feet high, terminates the navigable 
part of the stream. 
It may be remembered that Mt. Kenia has been ascended by Count 
Teleki to a height of 15,350 feet, yet he estimated that there was still 
above him 3,500 feet to the highest summit. The forest reaches to 
3,500 feet, bamboos to 10,500, after which the vegetation as far as the 
snow-line at 15,000 feet consists of mosses and the curious tree Senecio 
johnstonii. The slope toward the west is very gentle, but southward 
the mountain presents a serrated ridge four miles in length. 
An expedition has started for the Juba River commanded by Lieu- 
tenant C. R. Villiers, and accompanied by J. W. Gregory of the 
British Museum. 
Asia.—A Vistr to Prerk-Tu-SHan.—Mr. Carles has recently paid 
a visit to the singular white-topped and flat-topped mountain in 
Mantchuria, from which issue the sources of the three great rivers 
Tumen, Yalu and Sungari. This mountain, which has upon its sum- 
mit a lake some twelve miles in circuit, at an elevation of 7,500 feet,- 
had been previously been visited by Mr. Younghusband and his party, 
but Mr. Carles was moved to undertake the journey from Seul, the 
capital of Korea, by reading an account of it in a Chinese work. 
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