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Lake La Rouge, which drains into the Churchill, but was said 
to also open into the Beaver river, is shown not to do so, as the 
La Plonge river, though it rises near Lake La Rouge and falls 
into the Beaver, does not take the waters of the lake. Lake Wol- 
laston docs not, as was supposed by Hearne, communicate with 
Lake Athabasca. The most southerly stream that flows into the 
latter lake rises at the foot of Beasts mountain, close to Lake 
Wollaston, but has no communication with it. Great Bear lake, 
supposed by Sir J. Richardson to have three outlets, viz., Bear 
ke and Hareskin rivers, entering the Mackenzie, and Beghula 
river, flowing to the Arctic, has really but one—that which bears 
the same name. The Hareskin river flows out of the Wind lake 
near Smith bay in Bear lake, and the Beghula or Anderson rises 
in a little lake at the foot of Mount Ti-dépay, quite to the north 
and some distance from Bear lake. The fourth error regards the 
famous great lake of the Eskimo, now known to be considerably 
smaller than was supposed. This lake was believed to have vari- 
ous Openings into the Arctic, besides one in the mouths of the 
Mackenzie and another in the Anderson. It is now known that 
this lake has but one outlet, the “ Natowdja,” which flows direct 
into the Arctic ocean. M. Petitot represents the Beaver and Un- 
known rivers, which enter Lake Athabasca from the south, as of 
rather large size, and as rising in lakes near the drainage of the 
Churchill. 
-~ The Indians of the Athabasca and Mackenzie districts, chiefly 
Chipewyans and Crees, are so reduced that they barely reach 
A Visit To StanLey’s Stations IN Arrica.—Mr. H. H. John- 
ston gives (Proc. Roy. Geog. Soc., Oct., 1883) an interesting ac- 
count of his trip up the Congo to Mr. Stanley’s stations. Mr. 
Johnston first made an excursion from Underhill, a Baptist sta- 
tion on the Lower Congo, to Pallaballa. The villages upon the 
Lower Congo have a comfortable look, and the natives raise 
Maize, cascada, limes, sometimes oranges, papaws, the passion 
flower, which gives the fruit known as maracuja or grenadilla, and 
bananas and plantains. The plots of garden are marked out by > 
a line of bast tied from peg to peg, just as our gardeners do with . 
a string; hens are kept in hen-coops made of withes and grass, 
and goats and sheep are housed in a shanty of palm-fronds. The 
Central African sheep have short hairy coats, and the rams have 
also a silky mane from chin to stomach. Here and there may be 
Seen a black, high-shouldered bullock stalled in a not ill-fashioned 
manger of palm-fronds. | f 
The houses are built neatly and well, and are usually raised a 
foot above the ground on a platform of beaten earth. They are 
made of stout poles, with a wide-spreadirg roof having a long 
pole in the center, and covered with thin laths and dried grass. 
The roof extends some feet beyond the house all round, and is 
