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Elliot was sent by land from Isangila. The two met at Kitabi, 
and founded the stations of Massabe, on the coast, and Rudolf- 
stadt, Baudouinville. Franktown, Stanley, Niadi, Stephanieville, 
and Philippeville further up the river. Many good native roads 
were found, and it is believed that a railway can be made from 
the coast to Leopoldville so as to avoid the rapids of the Congo. 
M. Revoit’s JOURNEY IN THE Sourn SomaLt CounTRY.— 
This enterprising traveler has reached the town of Gananeh, on 
the Upper Juba. Notwithstanding the protection of the Sultan 
of Zanzibar and the good offices of the Governor of Magadoxo, 
and in spite of an escort of 200 men from the Somali tribe 
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for life to reach the town of Gualidi. This town is divided 
into six quarters, placed on both sides of the river Webbe, 
and is an extensive congeries of the conical huts called min, 
of which each Somal possesses two or three. By the end of 
August he reached Gananeh, and intends to go thence to the 
Galla country. 
GEOGRAPHICAL NoTES.—Mr. Jas. Stewart, who has completed 
the survey of Lake Nyassa, and has been engaged in making a 
toad between that lake and Tanganyika, died Aug. 30, 1883. 
Sir John Kirk writes from Zanzibar that the rumors of the death 
ing Mtesa are not supported by anything known at Zanzibar. 
——Lieut.-Col. E. .C. Ross believes that he has identified the 
Sitakus or Sitioganus of Nearchus and Pliny with the Kara- 
Aghatch, while the latter is the upper course of the Mund or Khor- 
i-Ziaret, the mouth of which, in the Persian gulf, is well known. 
— The Indian government contemplates sending an expedition 
tothe Takht-i-Suliman, the highest peak of the Suliman range. 
€ summit is a narrow plateau some five miles long from north 
to south, with a peak at each end over 11,000 feet high. It is 
lieved that a day’s observation from its summit will be the 
Means of mapping some 50,000 square miles of the territory im- 
mediately beyond the north-west frontier of India. Mr. 
has visited the Padas, Lawas, and Limbang, three rivers opening 
into the Brunei bay, on the north-west coast of Borneo. The 
bang and Padas have comparatively large populations on their 
banks, while the smaller Lawas flows through a beautiful but 
Parsely -populated country. e Lennard, a river of the Kim- 
berley district, Northwest Australia, rises in the Leopold ranges, 
and at about thirty miles from the sea forms a delta, the northern 
The grass on these rivers was remarkably luxuriant. f 
“iver (the Robinson) and several running streams, all lined with 
and densely grassed, were discovered by the Hon. J. F or- 
rest. The country as a whole is thinly timbered, and the district 
5 well adapted for raising cattle and horses. The interior of 
