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mixture of Malays with an inferior race of aborigines. The kin 
has instituted an order, the insignia of which is the first cervical 
vertebra of a dugong. 
An interesting account of these islands will be found in the 
* Animal Life” of Semper, who spent some time upon them. 
M. E. Planchut, in a recent issue of the Revue Scientifique, 
states that the people of the Carolines are in continual relations 
with those of the Mariannes, which undoubtedly belong to Spain, 
that the Caroline natives are treated as compatriots when cast 
upon the Philippines, and that in the eyes of a Spaniard the par- 
tition made by Alexander IV is still in force. The entire area of 
the Carolines, Ualam, Panope, and Kong excepted, would not 
cover more than.200 miles in length by 200 meters in width. 
` Thus the population is about 500 to the square mile. The same 
writer states that the people believe in a supreme being, whom 
they call Machi-machi. heir temples are pyramidal huts 
with a rough-hewn stone in front, and it is believed that were 
this stone to be raised by a chief who wished to chastize a mutin- 
ous people, the earth would tremble and the sea leave its bed to 
drown the rebels. M. Planchut states that the Palaos or Pelews 
have only 1200 inhabitants. 
Corea.—Beyond the granite mountains which surround Siril, Mr. 
Carles has come upon extensive lava sheets covering a large por- 
tion of Corea. “There are three great oval fields of lava passing 
almost in a straight line through the mountain chain which runs 
from the north to the south of Corea, at a height of about 1500 feet 
above the sea near the divide, and of 500 feet on the lower levels. 
There is also another plain about four miles wide and twelve miles 
long to the east of the Kaun-Song district, the direction of which 
is not so well defined, but in which the depth of lava is apparently 
greater than that in the others.” No crater is visible to account 
for the enormous mass of lava; which must have welled up from 
extensive fissures. 
Asiatic and Oceanic News—Mr. Gardner, British Consul of 
Newchwang, estimates the population of Manchuria at 15,000,000, 
Its three provinces are Heh-lung-Kiang, Kirin, and Féngtien, 
The port of Newchwang was opened to trade in 1861. The 
Sakeis of Selangore, in the Malay peninsula, seem to have no 
form of religious worship, but believe in omens. They kill small 
game with a blow-pipe and dart poisoned with Upas-juice, and 
large game with a kind of cross-bow formed of a bamboo spear 
placed in a grooved log, and a bent sapling held back by a rattan 
cord. This is stretched across a path inthe woods. The Sakeis 
live in bamboo huts thatched with palm-leaves. They area shy, 
harmless people, similar in appearance to the Malays, but smaller 
in statue and with wavy hair. The Geographical Society of 
Hamburg, in a recent publication, gives the area of Kaiser Wil- 
helm’s Land or German New Guinea at 34,508 square miles, 
