1252 General Notes. [ December, 
AFRICAN Notes.—M. Dutreuil de Rhins has communicated to 
the Geographical Society of Paris notes from De Brazza, by which 
it appears that the land route between Franceville and the Alima 
has been shortened from seventy-five miles to fifteen or twenty 
through the discovery of an affluent of the Ogowé. On his last 
visit to the Makoko M. de Brazza was accompanied only bya 
man anda boy. The French Mission at Cape Lopez now has 
fifty huts, and proves to be salubrious. Mr. H. H. Johnston 
writes to the Royal Geographical Society from Urura on the 
mountain Kilimanjaro. He speaks of it as “ one of the loveliest 
sites in the world. Above me towers into the deep blue heaven 
the snowy head of Kibo’, around me are green hills and forest- 
clad ravines in whose profound depths great cascades of water 
leap from rock to rock and splash the fronds of luxuriant ferns; 
before me lies spread out a vast blue plain—‘all the world, as 
my host, the chief Mandara, proudly says—and my view south- 
ward is only bounded by the distant horizon.” Clemens and . 
Gustav Dehardt have recently explored the Tana river and its two 
mouths. Massa, the farthest point attained, is found to be in 39 ) 
47’ E. long. instead of in 38° 20’, thus the river runs in a more | 
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southerly direction than has been supposed. Capt. Brandon 4 
Kirby, probably the first white man who has penetrated the od 
try due north of Coomassie, and reached the southern limits 
those inland nations who have hitherto been prevented from com 
munication with the seaboard by the formerly impassible barrier a 
of Ashanti power, does not think that that power is likely ti 
to regain its ascendancy over the neighboring tribes. Cone i 
was ruined during the civil war, but is being rebuilt. a : 
sacrifices are now forbidden by the new king, Quaco Dak | 
Portuguese expedition under Major H. de Carvalho left wo 
June ioth, with the object of establishing commercial re ree . 
with the Muata Yanvo. Thence the „expedition will ee 7 
Mozambique. (A Portuguese, Joaquim Rodriguez Graca, qa 
was the first to make known in Europe the kingdom of the “a 
Yanvo.)——The German African Association has sent out nae i 
expedition for the exploration of the southern part of the Keb 
basin, under the command of Lieut. E. Schulze, with Lieut. uttner j 
as topographer, Dr. Wolff as anthropologist, and Dr. cently 
as naturalist. Id, who has t 
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The yan 
gions peopled by Imaziren (Berbers) recognize no zeit has 
their own chiefs. The conflict of influences on the Y in which © 
sixteen pawns, bearing the colors of England, France, 
and Portugal, operate on a large map. 
