Geography and Travel. 719 
del Rey by the Backasey peninsula, the extremity of which is 
actually an island, since it is cut off from the mainland by the Little 
Qua River. Mr. H. H. Johnstone, H. B. M. Consul at Old 
Calabar, has in the early part of this year made a voyage up Cross 
River for the purpose of making treaties with the various kings and 
chiefs along its banks, as well as to settle various quarrels that had 
arisen among the natives themselves, and exercised a prejudicial 
effect upon the trade of the river, Mr. Johnstone was successful 
in concluding treaties with Umon (the first country above the Efik 
or Old Calabar country), Akukuna, and Iko-Morut, and also in 
inducing the people of those countries to resume friendly relations 
with each other and with Arun. Above Iko-Morut, and near 
Atam, the people are inveterate cannibals, and some of them treated 
their visitors to some startling, though happily bloodless experi- 
ences. Ata place called Ededema, Mr. Johnstone was dragged out 
of the canoe by a score of cannibals, mounted on the shoulders of 
the biggest, and carried off at a run to the town, where he was put 
in a hut with the door open, and had to bear for an hour the gaze 
of hundreds of savages. A smoked human ham, hanging from the 
smoke-blackened rafters of the house, and about a hundred skulls 
forming a ghastly frieze around the upper part of the clay walls of 
the hut, served to still further heighten the interest of the situation. 
Yet as soon as his interpreters rejoined him a friendly conversation 
was commenced, and the palaver was concluded by the return of the 
consul to his canoe in the same manner that he had been taken from 
it. Incidents similar to the above occurred several times as the 
voyagers proceeded, and since, though all ended in friendship, it 
was found that at the commencement the savages were undecided 
whether to look upon their visitor as a supply of food or not, Mr. 
Johnstone deemed it advisable to return. 
lateau, to the south by a high range dividing the Kaap from the 
foodie goldfields, and to the north by the Crocodile River. Queen’s 
combined stream joins the Crocodile in long. 31° 25’ E., and lat. 
32’ S. The terminus of the Lourenço Marques railway will 
be established upon Transvaal territory at the junction of the Ko- 
mati and the Crocodile, on the west side of the Lebombo range. 
The southern mountain range isa huge branch of the Drakensberg, 
peaks which rise to 7,600 feet, and forms the water-shed between 
