iSSg.] Geography and Travel. 435 
Fontana's Explorations in Patagonia. — The Italian 
explorer Fontana seems to have added considerably to the 
knowledge of the rivers of Argentine Patagonia. The Stalufu 
or Stanlufu is identical with the Corcovado, runs over a very 
sandy bed and is bordered with thick forests of beech and 
pines, rarely interrupted by meadows. Slightly to the 
south of this river the Carrenliefie runs directly into the 
Ocean near Point Huala. The Corcovado is a plentiful stream, 
fed in its upper course by six affluents, the principal of which 
is called by the natives Uncaparia. Forty-one less important 
streams were discovered, among them the Quemquemtreu, 
Maritea and Pichi-Leufu {the orthography is Italian) also six 
before unknown lakes. 
Geographical News. — The latest Stieler's Hand-Atlas 
has a map of Africa in seven sheets, upon a scale of 1-10,000,- 
000 with all the latest changes. Petermamis Mitteilungen 
(35 Band. 1889, iv.) gives a list of the principal authorities 
O. F. Ehlers states that he could find no trace of the presence 
of a crater upon the summit of Kibo (Kilimanjaro) which he 
W.J.Orcher, British Vice-Consul at Cheng- Mai or Zimme, 
has made an excursion to Cheng-tung, a market and thorough- 
fare about 200 miles to the Northeast of the former place, sit- 
uated on a platform some 2,700 feet above the sea. The soil 
around is poor and but little cultivated, and the place owes 
what prosperity it possesses to its position. 
Dr. Bauman, who accompanied Dr. Meyer, speaks of the good 
climate of the mountainous country of Uambara, between 
Pangaua and Umba in East Africa. The land is a mass of 
crystalline rock, covered partly with forest, partly with savanna, 
in places without vegetation. The Wachamba are the prin- 
cipal people and build two sorts of villages, one on slight ele- 
vations in valleys, with two concentric stockades and circular 
fences; the other on almost inacessible heights. They are 
agricultural, and are nominally Mussulmens. The Wachugu 
to the north are a taller people, and speak a different tongue; 
their houses are similiar, but they are almost entirely pastoral. 
H. Johnstone states that the difficulties encountered by the 
Deutsche Ostafrikanische Gescllschaft are chiefly due to the 
