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able for the establishment of a mission. He traversed the 
Kaohavi and the district of the Bamangwak, but was turned 
back by Liwanika, chief of the Barotse. He then retreated 
toward Benguela, but set out again and reached the country 
of the Gavenganze. Ascending plateux of 4000 to 6000 feet 
he arrived at Kwanza, and soon after discovered that the 
great depression Kifumadji, which Cameron believed to be a 
lake, has no water (save Lake Dilolo) except in the wet sea- 
son. Then leaving the Upper Zambezi on the right, the trav- 
eller entered a mountainous country, where Mount Kaomba 
form a water-parting between the Congo and the Zambezi. 
He was favorably received by Msidi, chief of the Gavenganze, 
and lived there some years before his return. Ivens and 
Capello had previously visited Msidi. Mr. Arnot says that 
Livingstone's Leeba is the true source of the Zambezi. 
Mr. Selous' Journey in the Zambezi Country.— F- 
C. Selous sends an account of his recent and somewhat unfor- 
tunate journeys in Africa, accompanied by a sketch map, to 
the Proceedings of the Geographical Society, London. It was 
Mr. Selous' intention to explore the Kafukwe, an important 
tributary of the Zambezi from the north, and at first all went 
well. Monze, the Mashona chief, had seen no white man since 
Livingstone passed thirty-five years since, and spoke of that 
event as though it had been last year. With the Mashaka- 
lumbwe, a people on the Kafukwe who have no firearms and 
wear no clothes, but who never go out without a bundle of 
long, barbed throwing javelins, Mr. Selous had great diflficulty, 
and narrowly escaped with his life. These people, aided by 
some Marotse, or inhabitants of the Barotse valley, attacked 
the camp in the night, and by a volley killed twelve and 
wounded five of his escort. Mr. Selous escaped, and, after 
having his rifle stolen, and after enduring great hardships, 
^ell in with the remnant of his party. The Barotse valley is a 
hot-bed of fever, and no white man can hope to escape death 
if he continues in this part of Africa. 
Europe.— The Gausses of the South of France.— E. 
A. Martel contributes to a recent issue of the Revue de Geogra- 
phic an article upon the Gausses of the South of France, a re- 
gion almost unknown ten years ago, and not rightly known 
till now. These Gausses are calcareous plateaux, not dissim- 
ilar in their nature to the mesas of the Colorado region, and 
