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sage. Small canoes ascend it even now, and it could easily be 
made accessible to small steamers, since it has neither falls nor 
rapids, Life is intense throughout the valley, the vegetation for 
from one to three hundred meters on each bank is so thick that it 
was only at intervals that our traveler could approach the river; 
elephants, lions, buffaloes, antelopes, etc., as well as birds abound, 
and numerous villages are situated within a few kilometers of its 
course. Gold is found in its sands. Leaving Podor June 24, 
1883, he left the Faléme at Senondébau, an abandoned French fort, 
and proceeded thence to Dialafara, the capital of Tambura, a 
couutry rich in cattle and gold, and induced the sovereign to sign 
a treaty of protectorate. From Dialafara Dr. Colin went to Kas- 
sama, capital of Diébedugu, a city before unknown to Euro- 
peans. Kassama seemed so important that Dr. Colin endeavored 
to find a practicable route from thence to the terminus of the 
French railway at Bafulabé, but failed. M. Tomezek, the com- 
panion of M. Rogovinski in the exploration of the Cameroons re- 
gion, died at Mondoleh, May 10, 1884, aged 24 years. Notwith- 
Standing his youth, he had got together a vocabulary of the 
Kruman language, explored the Rio del Rey, and taken many 
notes upon the country. Not only M. Rogovinski, but M. 
Passavant of Basle, has resolved to advance into the interior of the 
Cameroons region in search of the mysterious Lake Liba. In 
his last journey Mr. Stanley ascended the Aruwimi to Tambuga, 
2° 43’ N. lat. At that point the river is called Biyere, farther on 
it is the Berre and the Werré, and Mr. Stanley believes it to 
be identical with the Welle of the south of the Soudan. He dis- 
covered on this journey the Lulemgu, an important affluent upon 
the right bank, and established a station upon the island of Wana- 
usani, near the right bank of the river, in 0° 10’ N. lat. 
America.—Worse and Portuguese Colonies in North America — 
Mr. R. G. Haliburton (Proc. Roy. Geog. Society, January, 1885) 
identifies the “ Vinland the Good” of Eric the Red with New- 
foundland. The length of the day given in the Greenland Saga 
coincides with that of Newfoundland, and the man who called 
his first find Greenland in order to attract colonists, would not 
scruple to give a good name to the land found by his son, Leif. 
Wild grapes are said to occur on the west coast, and this was 
enough for Eric to magnify into shiploads of grapes and a semi- 
tropical winter climate. The Helluland of the Saga is, by Mr. 
Haliburton identified with Labrador, the southern part of which 
was Markland, while Genunga gap was Belle Isle strait. It was 
not known until the publication, in 1883, of “ Os Corte Raes,’ 
by Senhor Ernesto do Canto, that from 1500 to 1579 oe or ak 
were regularly issued to the Corte Reals as governors of terra 
Nova, and that at least three settlements were made by the Por- 
tuguese. Except, perhaps, the Vinland of the Norsemen, this 
colony, which included Labrador, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia 
