1889.] Geography and Travel. 617 
lowed until it crosses the meridian of the mouth of the Wango-Wango ; 
then along the Congo from the confluence of the Wango-Wango to the 
ocean. The western or ocean frontage of the Free State is thus 
exceedingly short, reaching only from the mouth of the Congo to the 
. south of Kabinda Bay. By royal decree the Free State was, on the 
first of August, 1888, divided into eleven districts, viz., Banana, Boma, 
Matadi, Cataracts, Stanley-Pool, Kasai, Equator, Ubangi and Welle, 
Arawimi and Welle, Stanley-Falls, and Lualaba. 
Asia. — Another Russian Journey in Central Asia. — An- 
other Russian traveler, M. Groubtchevsky, has been recently traveling 
in Central Asia. On his first journey he crossed the Pamir to the 
valley of the Aksu. At the junction of this river with the Istyk he 
was arrested by Chinese agents. Having got rid of these by presents, 
he followed up the Aksu and the Wakhan-daria, but soon met with a 
detachment of Afghan troops, sent on purpose to arrest Russians. 
These troops followed him, and camped near him ; but in the night 
he assaulted them, took them prisoners, and made them conduct him 
to a pass in the mountains. Returning by another route, he traversed 
the Mustagh glaciers, and followed the course of the Yarkand-daria. 
Meeting an insurmountable obstacle, he was obliged to return, and 
direct his march to the north, passing by the peak of Tagharma. 
Here the food and strength of the Russians were exhausted, and a 
messenger was sent to Kashgar for supplies. The last news from the 
traveler announces his safe arrival in Ferghana. 
Nepal. — Emil Schlagintweit informs us that the population of 
Nepal is about two millions. In the east the Tibetan race extends to 
the valley of Kosi ; in the west the Hindu, somewhat mixed, extends 
to that of Gandach ; and between them are located other peoples, 
coming from Central Asia. Among these tribes are the Leptcha, who 
are short, and have flat foreheads, pointed chins, and very long arms ; 
the Limbu, who occupy the spurs of the Himalayas, and are neither 
Buddhists nor Brahmins; and the Hayu, who inhal^it marshy sjxits at 
the foot of the mountains, and are even less civili/ed than the Limbu. 
The dominant people of Nepal is the Gurkha, who are Hrahminists. 
The Upper Yenesei.— M. Yatchevsky. one of the companions 
of Colonel Bobyr, notices the distrilnition of the -Ia<iers in the 
mountains that separate Siberia from Mongolia. Tlie limit of per- 
petual snow in this region is about 2,400 metres on the north, and 
3,000 on the south side, but there are few glaciers properly so-called. 
That of Munho-Sardigh is like an Alpine glacier, but most of the 
