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MM. Destrain and Legat, were left in charge of a station, yet 
Capt. Elliott pushed on, with Von Schaumann, hopelessly ill, 
lashed to a mule, and the only remaining officer in a deathly 
stupor from sun-stroke. Some time before this, a portion of the 
Zanzibaris mutinied, fourteen deserting, and part of the baggage 
had to be destroyed for want of bearers. Covered with painful 
ulcers, emaciated, and with bleeding feet, Capt. Elliott, when on 
the point of succumbing, was met by a native sent to his assist- 
ance by M. Van de Velde, who had been sent by Stanley to his 
assistance, and was at Kilabi, seven days off. Eventually Capt. 
Elliott and his two companions reached the coast, but Von 
Schauman died on the voyage home. In three anda half months 
only 600 miles had been traversed. Capt. Elliott subsequently 
explored the Kwliu river and valley in company with Mr. 
Spencer-Burns and MM. Mikie and Destrain. The district has 
for the most part been freely ceded by the natives to the asso- 
ciation, and formed into a province with fifteen stations. Capt. 
Elliott is administrator, with a staff of twenty-eight officers and 
about 250 men. 
African Notes—Sr. Bianchi has successfully finished a journey 
_ from the eastern boundaries of Abyssinia along the River 
Golima to the Italian. possession of - Assab. Lieut. Shu- 
feldt, U. S. N., has recently traveled across . Madagascar 
south-west from Antananarivo. He thoroughly investigated 
and mapped the head-waters of the Zizibongy and its tribu- 
taries, and reached the coast on July 2d, after a journey of 
680 miles. Then crossing the Mozambique channel in an old 
boat, he landed at Mozambique. Lieut. Becker will be 
despatched by the African International Association to cross 
‘Africa and connect Karema, on Lake Tanganyika, with Stanley’s 
_ stations of the Upper Congo. Herr R. Flegel has returned to 
erlin. During the last two years he has explored all Adamawa, 
nd discov the course of the Binué, but the feuds and 
violence of the intervening tribes prevented him from journeying 
from the Binué to the Congo. His conviction is that the Binué 
is navigable for 1100 kilometers, and its chief affluents, as for 
instance the Taraba, for a distance of fifty to sixty nautical miles, 
during five or six months of the year. 
_ Sours Georcia.—Though in 54° 31’ S. lat., this island is by 
its climate antarctic. Royal bay is surrounded with enormous 
glaciers 900 to 1200 feet in height, rising inland to 6000 or 7000 
feet. The mean temperature during the year, from Sept., 1882, 
to Sept., 1883, was found by Dr. Schrader to be 35° F.; in Feb- 
ruary, the warmest month, it was 42°, in June, the coldest, 26° 
The fauna and flora are meager, although the mosses are 
fine. 
