1150 General Notes. [November, | 
sont in advance, via the Ogowé, is about 280 miles in a straight 
ine. 
Mr. O'Neill, who is about to start for Lake Shirwa, writes that 
from information received he begins to doubt if the Lujenda has 
its source in that lake. Many native traders say that it rises ina 
lake called Amaramba or Muaremba, and one who traveled from 
one lake to the other, states that there is no connection between 
them. 
The French company entitled “ Les Factoreries Françaises du 
Golfe Persique et de l'Afrique Orientale ” has obtained consider- 
ble rights from Menelek 11, King of Shoa, who rules over Obock. 
The company contracts to convey to Obock, at its own expense 
and risk and in its caravans, at fixed prices, whatever goods the 
king requires, also to convey the money. A mining engineer 
has been sent to the king, at his request, to explore the mines of 
copper, gold, silver, precious stones and coal which exist in Shoa. 
The object of the company is the development of French com 
merce with the east, and it has already established relations with 
the districts of Persia on the Tigris and Euphrates. Obock is at 
the exit of the Red sea and a few hours’ journey from Aden. M. 
Soleillet reports that in his journey to Shoa, Kaffa, etc., 
that the coffee-plant forms the underwood of the forests from the 
River Gueba. | 
America.—Lieut. Bove states that Staten island, the eastern- 
most of the Fuegian archipelago, has a deeply indented arta 
mountainous, its peaks rising to 850 meters, and displays er 
dant evidences of glacial action in moraines and lakes. ae 
Cruz, on the eastern coast of Patagonia, is described as the ‘le 
center for the population of the region, as it has s ae 
range, the Nahue 
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illera. aie ate 
of the Nahuelbuta, which reaches a height of 5000 fe The 
t eruptions. * < 
are to some = 
iards in the 
days of their conquests—conquests which were, however, * re 
in their southward progress by the brave Araucanians, a The 
possess a considerable proportion of good land in the sout™. aad 
littoral region, some twenty miles wide, consists of Jur nine 
ds three to 
contributes this information, believes the coal to be J 
coast range and littoral slope are heavily ooe the hat- - 
short and unnavigable, the climate rough an i 
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