560 General Notes. [June 
Baluba and the basin of the Lubilash. He and De Macar, the 
commander at Luluaburg, visited the residence of Mona Tenda, 
near the Lukula. The people are Bashilange, and the country 
is densely populated. The eastern bank of the Lukula belongs 
to the Baluba, and forms an undulating prairie, which, though 
barren in appearance, has a numerous population. Wissmann 
intends to go north and explore the region where the Lulongo, 
uapa, and Lomami have their sources. 
R 
agascar into an extensive internal water-way of great commercial 
value. 
The “Bolletino” of the Italian Geographical Society publishes 
a detailed account of the Italian possessions on the Red Sea. 
Assab and the surrounding district is absolutely annexed, while 
Massowa, Emberemi, the -el-Kader Peninsula, Gherar, the 
Taulud Island, and the Dahlak Archipelago are garrisoned and 
administered by Italy, and the coast from Annesley Bay to Assab 
is under. Italian protection. 
Dr. Colin contributes to the Revue d’ Anthropologie a paper on 
the Malinkes of Bambouk, once a ruling race upon the Upper 
Niger, but now divided into numerous little states, and appar- 
ently without a religion, though they were once Mohammedan. 
_ Their territory is about six hundred kilometres long and from 
eighty to one hundred and fifty in width. 
Don Manuel Iractier has paid two visits to the newly-acquired 
Spanish territory on the east coast of Africa. On his last journey 
(1884-85) he traversed four thousand miles between the equator 
and 3° N. latitude, penetrating from the seaboard to’ about 20° 
E. longitude, and surveying to their sources all the streams be- 
tween the Rio del Campo and the Gaboon. Of these by far the 
largest is the Muni, which debouches in Corisco Bay, after re- 
ceiving the waters of the Utamboni, Noya, and other affluents, 
_ and draining nearly six thousand square miles. 
ajor Serpa Pinto and Lieutenant Cardoso have arrived in 
Lisbon, after exploring the region between Mozambique and 
_ Lake Nyassa. The Lienda, a tributary of the Rovuma, was 
> found not to rise in Lake Nmaramba, but to flow through that 
basin from Mount Songe, farther to the west. 
