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Capello and Ivens 200 miles further south, instead of square like 
those on the Congo. Women wear a solid brass collar weighing 
twenty-five to thirty pounds. Our travelers arrived at Bolobo - 
during the saturnalia consequent upon a chief’s death, and state 
their impression that the main characteristics of the people are 
drunkenness, immorality and cruelty in the most revolting excess. 
Mr. H. E. O’Neill draws attention (Proc. Roy. Geog. Soc., 
1885, p. 373) to the neglected port of Nakala, in Fernao Veloso 
bay, north of Mozambique. It has numerous good anchorages, 
and offers magnificent conditions for the founding of a colony. 
Nakala is a deep inlet forming a southern prolongation of Fernao 
Veloso bay. Dr. H. Zoller, in his account of Togo land, pub- 
lished in the Kolnische Zeitung, states that the streets of the Togo 
villages are better swept than those of Berlin. Refuse is thrown 
into large holes, which are covered over when full. The rectan- 
gular houses are built of huge bricks made of clay, reeds and 
straw, the: roof is thatched with straw, and the floor is covered » 
with red clay. Sometimes there are two or more apartments, 
provided with windows having wooden shutters, and occasionally 
there is an upper floor with a kind of staircase. he expedi- 
tion of Messrs. F. L. and W. D. James has returned to England. 
The Messrs. James intended to cross from Berbera to Magadoxo, 
but though accompanied by sixty Somali and with Dualla, one of 
Stanley’s best men, for headman, they only succeeded in reaching 
Barri, on the Webbe river. The greater part of this journey of 
about 400 miles, was over territory before unvisited by Euro- 
peans. Barri is 215 miles from Magadoxo. Since the depar- 
ture of Mr, Comber, his colleague, the Rev. G. Grenfell, has as- 
cended the Mabangi, or Ubangi tributary to 4° 30’ N. lat., the 
_ Alkere to 2° 50’ N., the Lubilash, or Lomame, to 1° 50’ N., the 
bura to cataracts ten miles from its mouth and the Kelemba, 
or Ruki, as far as it was navigable, viz., 100 miles. The Sankuru 
Proved an unimportant small stream ; the Albangi is he river, 
but the tribes are bad and fierce; and the Ukere is thought to be 
the Welle (Proc. Roy. Zodl. Soc., June).——Mr. E. H. pom 
an American missionary, has journeyed from Inhambane to 
Limpopo, through a region which is at present a blank on our 
maps. The Bombom river forms the western boundary of the 
Portuguese province, and drains a large area of Western Inham- 
e, as well as the eastern slope of the Makwakwa ridge to the 
west. The country west of this ridge is semi-deserted in conse- 
quence of the raids of Umzila’s soldiers. From the Makwakwa 
ridge to the Limpopo is level land. The Ama-gwaza, or people 
of Umzila, inhabit or control the country from the Zambesi 
to the Limpopo, and with the exception of the Portuguese pos- 
Sessions of Chiluan and Inhambane, from the sea in the east to 
the Matabele country on the west. It is announced from Lis- 
bon that the Portuguese explorers, Capello and Ivens, have dis- 
