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are used. The result is a mass of impure iron, which has to be 
again smelted to consume the charcoal within it, and is thenh 
again and hammered into hoes. The smelting is done ina ro 
hut with a steep high roof, but all the blacksmith’s work is done 
in the open air. The neighboring Mangaheri are a timid, peat 
able people inhabiting a district some thirty-five miles long by fif- 
teen wide between 6° 20’ and 6° 40’ S. lat. and 37° to 37° 40 l 
long. Every man is more or less a blacksmith and can forge 
hoes, swords, hatchets, arrow-heads, spears, etc. The women 
of thesetribesare of two kinds, m/songi or round huts, and the more 
substantial but dismal and dirty zembe. A tembe consists 
crotched posts inserted in holes about two feet apart. Two ne 
of these posts are set up at a distance of about nine feet from eah 
in with small wood, bound with a wild creeper, and pack 
wet clay. The roof is made by covering a mass of smaller pos 
branches and grass with about two feet of dry beaten clay. i 
doorway never more than four feet high and two wide and 50 
small round holes to look out at, are left in the sides. a 
Mr. Stanley returned in August from a journey to the ei | 
of the Ikelemba or Kassai, where he founded an advance e the | 
together with eight of their eleven Zanzibar men. ith 
The African traveler, Ernst Marno, died at Fazogi, 0” ee 
of August last, while on his way to Europe to recruit his 
He was only 39 years of age. 
GEOGRAPHICAL News.—An expedition despatched to New s 
by the proprietors of the Melbourne Argus has returned to Q entot, 
land. Its members suffered from fever, and one, Professor semi- 
Dr. Fisher, when about six days march from the > 
mythical inland sea of Lake Bahringo, was compelled - a 
by a force of 3000 Masai warriors. He has made large C. E 
tions, including many species new to science === apt. Lake 
Foot, R. N., has been appointed British Consul for the into 
district of South Central Africa, and will endeavor tO enter pre 
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, friendly negotiations with the native chiefs. 
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by the International African Association to comman 
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