304 General Notes. [March, 
boundary of the enclosure, which occupies some 25 square miles, 
Outside of this an outer wall is carried, except where there is no 
natural boundary, around a still larger area of ground within which 
none may build a dwelllng and none be buried save the emperors 
of China. The tombs are much alike, and contain several stone 
buildings. ; 
GEOGRAPHICAL Norrs.—A “Carpathian Club,” for the study 
of the mountains of the country, has been formed at Hermann- 
stadt (Transylvania) and already numbers 1200 members— 
“Die Adria,” a work in twenty-five parts, gives most valuable 
information relative to the geography, commerce, fisheries, ete, 
of the eastern shore of the Adriatic———M. Miklukho Maclay 
has recently given a lecture before the Russian Geographical 
Society on his stay in New Guinea. The natives of the north- 
west coast, where he resided for a long time, were in the lowest 
stage of culture. They did not know how to rekindle a fire, and 
were compelled to borrow from another hut or another village 
when their fire went out- They place their dead in a sitting 
position, covered with cocoa-nut leaves, while for three weeks @ ) 
M. Maclay be 
the same race. Both brachycephalic and dolichocephalic skulls 
occur everywhere, so that this feature affords no ground iori 
separation. The hair does not grow in clusters, as has the 
stated, and the size of the curls does not exceed that of a 
Negritos. On parts of the coast traces of Malay blood ar 
dent. The Malays of Celebes bring with them Malay girls y 
wives to the Papuans, and take back Papuan girls in exc^a 9 
Lake Kamaka-Vallar is a lake of warm water without an 0 | 
but when the waters rise fifteen or twenty feet above the des 
level a temporary outlet is formed by the giving way of th “ae 
The Papuans of the Koviay coast live in covered boats, IN fear oF 
they cruise in search of food, landing only at night for eel 
the highlanders, whose enmity they have incurred by their ° g 
slave-making habits. The disease, drunkenness and firearms 
troduced by traders, and even by the missionaries of w 
societies, more than counterbalance the good done by p 
ligious and secular teachings of the missionaries. —— z mouth 
steamer Djimphna is reported safe, and will winter at the a 
of the Petchora. All on board are well, provisions ample, aigat 7 
vessel uninjured by the ice while drifting about in it meat” sith 
Island ——Dr. Riebeck, after exploring Socotra in compa”), at 
Dr. Schweinfurth, has travelled through the Himalayas gT 
ous parts of India, and has taken many photographs and “iaag 
- iñ Chin rey 
he accuses England and other European nations of 207 pig 
territory by the three steps of “stealthily beguiling,” “ €26 - 
