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a plane-iron being now employed to serve as the blade of an 
a n Savo the megapode or mound-builder lays its eggs upon 
two sandy patches of open ground, and nowhere else on the island. 
These laying-grounds are fenced off into small divisions for various 
owners. In New Georgia and the adjacent smaller islands the 
passion for head-hunting is such that no canoe can be launched 
without a head being obtained. The chief hunting grounds are the 
large islands of Choiseul and Ysabel, which have been nearly de- 
populated by the practice. i 
GODWIN-AUSTEN PEAK.—The second highest mountain known 
to exist on the earth’s surface is as yet unnamed, unless the letters 
K ?, by which it was characterized by the surveyors who discove 
and fixed its position nearly thirty years ago, can be called a 
name. Attention to this unnamed and unknown condition of the 
second mightiest elevation of the world, 28,250 feet above the sea- 
level, was called through the reading of Lieutenant Younghusband’s 
account of his adventurous passage over the Mustakh Pass on 
is way from China to India. General J. T.Walker (late Surveyor- 
General of India), has proposed that the peak be named Godwin- 
Austen, after the first surveyor of the Mustakh ranges and glaciers, 
and the proposition received the assent of the meeting of the Royal 
‘Geographical Society. 
A route practicable for road or rail has been found from Assam 
to Upper Burma, across a belt of dense tree jungle and mounta, 
which lies between the last British station in Assam and the summit 
of the Patkoi range. 
Arrica.—THE CamEroons.—M. Valdau, a Swedish colonist 
of the Cameroons, explored the northern slopes of the range in the 
early part of 1887, and found that the main chain does not extend 
as far as 4°30’ N. Latitude, since the highest point attained by 
him, about 4°28’ N. Latitude, only measured 2,850 feet. M. Knut- 
son, another Swede, in July last discovered the mouth of the rivet 
Memeh, which had previously been supposed either to be a tributary 
of the Rio del Rey, or of the Rumbi. Its embouchure is a little to 
the south of that of the Rumbi. M. Knutson ascended the rive 
which he found to be navigable for about thirty miles, as far as the 
Diiben Falls, 100 feet in height. ce 
SENEGAMBIA.—French explorers and surveyors have been busy 
in Senegambia. The country of Bondu, hitherto known only from 
the itineraries of Mungo Park and others, has been thorou hly 
surveyed by M. Fortin and Leforte ; and the district of Bambus 
which two years ago was the least known part of French Sudan, 
