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merely by lakes and low hills. Between the ranges the land is 
level, and trees of good size reach 63° 50’ N. lat 
AFRICA.— The Resources of Africa—A pamphlet by Dr. A. 
Fischer, entitled “ Mehr Licht im dunkeln Welttetl,’ is interesting 
-as giving the most unfavorable view possible of the resources of 
Africa, and may be useful to those who have been too much 
phant is almost exterminated along the coast over a width of 130 
to 200 miles, and is no longer to be found in South Africa, 
Caoutchouc in East Africa is being rapidly exterminated by the 
unskillful and improvident way in which the juice is collected. 
Gum copal, since competition with Australia, has so sunk in price 
as not to pay unless with slave labor. Dr. Fischer takes also 4 
desponding view of the agricultural capabilities of Africa. On 
the whole, however, his statistics prove rather the need for settled 
success in Liberia. 
Lieut.Wissman’s Expedition —Lieut. Wissman’s expedition down 
the Kassai throws new light on the geography of the Congo basin. 
The Sankuru, or lower course of the Lubilash, unites with it by 
‘two arms 830 and 1000 feet wide; a river which Lieut. Wiss- 
man believes to be the Loangwe, though at its mouth it is known 
as the Temba, flows in lower down; and still lower the great 
Cuango and the Mfini from Lake Leopold unite their waters 
with it. Below the Sankuru the Kassai is 3300 yards wide, and 
yards or more, and is dotted with islands and sand banks. Its 
lower portion, known as the Kwa, is narrow, not more than 45° 
Lulua the native name is Savié. The natives here are Barkub 
on the right bank, Bashilelé on the left. Lower down, below 
- he Sankuru, reside the Badinga and Bangodi, and stiil lower the 
Btakuta, who were hostile to the explorers, and are reputed canni- 
bals. Still nearer the junction of the Cuango are the Baduna. 
