64 General Notes. (January, 
2034 hours, and believes that the distance is not above $5 miles, 
and therefore is much exaggerated on the maps. A map of the 
Lower Congo, issued by the International Association in July, 
1883, shows the river as flowing 100 miles more to the west than 
it is marked in the best recent atlases. Gen. J. H. Lefroi, in his 
presidential address to the geographical section of the British As- 
sociation, stated that Dr. Pogge’s account of the kingdom of the 
Muato Yanvo (not yet translated) proved that the people were 
much in advance of their cannibal neighbors of Kauanda. They 
practice circumcision, and are a fine warlike race, but addicted 
to slave-hunting. Since Dr, Pogge’s visit Muata Yanvo has 
been deposed and poisoned by the “ Lukokesha,” or second in 
authority in the kingdom, who is one of his half-sisters. The 
Muata Yanvo is chosen principally by the Lukokesha, but must 
be a son of the former king. The Proceedings of the Royal 
Geographical Society for October give a list of 120 stations occu- 
pied by Europeans in Central Africa in 1884, with their latitude — 
and longitude. Sixty-one of these are situated between the 
Equator and the Zambezi, east of 25° E. long., and fifty-nine west 
of longitude 25° E., between the equator and the Kuimén or 
Cunené. Twenty-six of the latter belong to the Belgian Inter- 
national Association, which has also four stations east of long. 
26° E Through the letter of recommendation given by Sir 
John Kirk (British Agent at Zanzibar), who is in high favor with 
King Mandala, the ruler of Chagga, Mr. H. H. Johnston and 
his party are fed and clothed entirely at the cost of that poten- 
tate, who has given him a spot up the mountain (Kilimandjaro) 
where he can build a house and carry on his natural history 
work.—tThe Rev. W. P. Johnson has communicated to the 
Royal Geographical Society the result of seven years travels 
among the various tribes who inhabit the district east of Lake 
Nyassa, watered by the Lujenda and Rovuma and their tributaries. 
These streams rise east of the mountains which border the lake, 
and uniting in about 38° 10’ E. Long., flow to the Indian ocean. 
The district watered by them appears to be thickly peopled by 
settled and intelligent tribes, but the Gwangwara, a Zulu tribe that 
were driven northward about 30 years ago, oppress and enslave 
them, and the slave trade flourishes. The mountains do not ex- 
ceed 4000 feet in height. 
AMERICAN NotEs.—Dr. C. v. den Steinen, a member of the 
German expedition to South Georgia, has recently descended the 
before unexplored Xingu to its junction with the Amazons. 
Another German traveler, Dr. G. Steinmann, who remained in 
South America at the conclusion of the 
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