1886] Geography and Travels. 263 
African News.—The native population of the Gaboon region is, 
according to Dr. Lenz, being rapidly driven towards the interior 
by the Fans. The Germans have annexed the country lying 
behind the French possessions at Great and Little Popo, on the 
Gold coast. M. G. Angelvy, a French engineer in the service 
of the Sultan of Zanzibar, reports that he has discovered coal of 
excellent quality on the Lujenda tributary of the Rovuma. The 
great drawback is the distance from the coast, all the more to be 
regretted since beds of siderite lie near. The Rovuma, though 
2000 feet wide, is but a foot to a foot and a half deep. The sul- 
tan intends to work the coal-beds, and to construct a road or rail- 
way to Lake Nyassa. Sir John Kirk, in a letter accompanying 
that of M. Angelvy, states that the coal region lies sixty miles 
south of the latitude of Delgado bay, and a question of inland 
frontier is therefore likely to arise between the Sultan of Zanzibar 
and Portugal. At Tunis a modern French town is being built 
between the native city and the lake. Land is being rapidly 
brought under cultivation, taxes reduced, roads constructed, and 
the country in every way improved. . Moller has proved 
that the peak of St. Thomas is the highest Iand in the island of 
that name, and is 2142 meters high. The November Bulletin 
della Società Geographica Italiana contains a letter from De Brazza, 
describing a voyage undertaken from Brazzaville to the Licona 
or Ncunda. The name Congo is not known by the Apfurus and 
Bateke, who speak of it as the Great river. The village of 
Bonga at the mouth of the Alima is large and picturesque, it is 
intersected in all directions by canals, and the houses, some 
meters long, form streets. Down the wilderness of canals is 
brought the large quantity of manioc grown upon the Alima, for 
the supply of the natives of the Congo banks, which in this part 
are unfitted for the growth of manioc. De Brazza says that it 
will be half a century before the labyrinth formed by the various 
channels of the Congo above Stanley pool is correctly mapped. 
- For eight days, he says, “ we believed we were on another river, 
and found after all that we were on the Congo.” The Apfurus and 
Bayansi are the same people. H. Entz and A. Mer have, after 
a careful study of the voyage of Hanno, the Carthaginian, come 
to the conclusion that it terminated at Fernando Po. Thymate- 
nion 1s identified with the town of Mazaghan, and the promontory 
of Soloé with Cape Cantin. The Lixus is by Mer identified with 
the Senegal, by Entz and others with the Draa. The island of 
