60 ` General Notes. 
DISCOVERIES IN NEW GUINEA.—T wo new rivers, named by their 
discoverers the Jubilee and the Douglas, have been found and 
mapped by the exploring party sent out on the Victory by Messrs. 
Burns, Philp & Co. Very few natives were met with, except upon 
the sea-coast, and these were not particularly hostile. The Douglas 
was followed to Bowden junction, from whence the eastern tribu- 
tary (Philp River) was taken until a point was reached about 100 
miles up the stream and 25 from the German boundary. The Aird 
River was found to be but one of the mouths of the Douglas. The 
Jubilee River opens into Deception Bay, at the head of the Gulf 
of Papua, about half a degree west of the mouth of the Douglas, 
and trends northwestward toward the Albert Victor Range. It, 
also, was followed for about 100 miles. The entire coast region 
here is very swampy, with dense undergrowth, but the interior is a 
hilly wooded country. Cretaceous limestone was met with on the 
Philp River, while basaltic rocks occurred still higher up, and were 
also met with upon the Jubilee. Both rivers have several mouths, 
their deltas covering about 40 miles respectively. The natives gave 
indications of Dravidian origin. Their canoes were dug-outs with 
outriggers, and often large. They wore nose-pencils, and distended 
the lobes of the ears. 
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GEOGRAPHICAL News.—Dr. A. Meyer, of Leipzig, who has 
recently succeeded in ascending Kilimanjaro to the glacier-walled 
crater-summit of Kibo, and has explored the volcanic plateau which 
lies between Kibo and Kimawenzi, estimates the altitude of the — 
former at 19,680 feet, instead of 18,800, as believed by Johnston, 
who reached 16,000 feet. 
M. Sibiriakoff has again despatched the steamer Nordenskiold to 
the Yenisei via the Kara Sea. The vessel left Norway in August, — 
and reached the mouth of the Petchora, where she received a cargo 
of skins, corn, tallow, and mammoth tusks. The Phoenix of Leith 
succeeded in entering the Yenisei itself. 
From accounts received from various parts of the Arctic Seas 
of the state of the weather and the ice during the past summer 
it appears that the steady and continuous prevalence of easterly — 
and northeasterly winds forced the ice from the regions north oF — 
Spitzbergen and Nova Zembla down into the seas around North- a 
ern Norway, Jan Mayen, Iceland, the Faroé Islands, and the T 
east coast of Grenli This is thought to account for the early — 
setting in of winter experienced in England. 
Dr. H. V. Jhering has ee up the Cainacuam, a river 12 — 
the Brazilian province of Rio Grande do Sul, from its delta t0 
the town of S. Jose. Throughout its lower course the river win% 
in sharp curves, and while the right bank is steep and woode@, — 
the left is flat and covered with gravel. Higher up both banks 
