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and N. Syria, and the Kizilbash and Tezyde of Upper Mesopo- 
tamia and Kurdistan. The Turukes are genuine nomads, tradi- 
tionally from the Hindu Kush. urcomans and Kurds also 
occur, besides Bulgarians, Arnauts, Arabs, Gypsies, Europeans and 
negroes, all of whom have immigrated in comparatively modern 
times. 
AFrica.—The recent journey of Bishop Parker and the Rev. 
J. Blackburn from Mombasa to Mamboia, a point situated about 
GEOGRAPHICAL News.—M. Thonar, who was believed to have 
Shea in the Gran Chaco, has returned to Port Pacheco with 
1S companions, 
It now appears that Dr. Meyer did not ascend to within 2000 
feet of the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro. 
The volume of water discharged every second by Lake Baikal 
through the Angara reaches 121,353 cubic feet, and the vertical 
onion of the river at its issue is, according to the Izvestia, 17,920 
eet. 
_ Gen. A. Houtum-Schindler (Proc. Roy. Geog. Boc., Feb. 1888), 
gives a summary of the various barometrical and trigonometrica 
` observations that have been made at the altitude of Demavend, the 
Shest peak of the Elbruz Mountains (Persia), and arrives at a 
result of about 19,400 feet. Although no eruption of Demayvend 
18 on record, smoke, or at least steam, has been stated to have been 
seen to issue from it 
