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entered the vast virgin forests that extend to the Lubilash, a 
stream as wide as the Elbe. There are no fruit trees in these 
forests, and game and birds are therefore absent. Onlyelephants 
and a kind of wild boar were met with. 
Some difficulty was experienced in crossing this stream owing 
to the ill-will of Kachichi, king of Koto, an old and much-rever- 
enced sorcerer. Some shots and rockets finally frightened him 
into lending boats. 
Beyond the Lubilash the territory of the Beneki was passed 
through. Of this tribe Lieut. Wissmann says that the villages 
are models, well built and clean, the houses surrounded by gardens 
and palm-trees. They are an agricultural people. Some of their 
oo are so long that it took three or four hours to pass through 
em, 
Farther east they passed through the rich prairie lands inhabited 
by the Kalebue and Milebue, extending to the Lomami, another 
tributary of the Congo. 
Another tribe visited was that of the Batuas, an undersized, 
slender, dirty and savage-looking people who subsist on the chase 
and on wild fruits, and whose arms and implements show a low 
State of culture. On the long and dangerous journey from Lake 
Tanganyika to Zanzibar, Lieut. Wissmann met with a most hos- 
pitable reception from the renowned brigand chief Mirambo. 
He says that Lake Lincoln, reported by Dr. Livingstone, does 
not exist. 
_ The mission station of Ribé, near Mombas, was recently vis- 
ited by a marauding party of Wakwafi, a tribe through whose 
territory Mr. Thomson's expedition must pass. The tact of Mr. 
Wakefield averted a combat, which would have had a sinister 
effect on the prospects of the expedition. 
Dr. Fischer, on the part of the French Geographical Society, 
has left Zanzibar for the interior, and intends to visit the un- 
friendly Masai as well as to explore the country between Lakes 
anyara and Naivasha. 
: M. Storms arrived at Karema on the 27th September last, hav- 
ing left the coast on June gth, thus making the journey in the 
unparalleled short time of three months and a half. 
Monseigneur Fr. Sogaro, papal vicar of Central Africa, from 
Sahara to the equator, has left for Khartum. 
_M.l’Abbe Guyot has ascertained that the Ruaha, or Lufigi, the 
_ fiver that issues from the great lakes and empties itself into the 
_ Sea below Zanzibar, is not navigable. It is a beautiful, broad 
_ Watercourse in some parts, but narrower in others, and ull of 
_ ‘Sts and rocks. Père Guyot spent seventy-two days in the dis- 
trict, and is preparing a map of it 
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