632 General Notes. [July, 
“-uary issue of the Revue Geographique, M. H. Condreau gives an 
account of the manners of the Uapes. Most of the tribes of the 
river border have no garment whatever, but in some tribes the 
men wear a “calembe” of bark, and in the villages lower down 
the river the men don pantaloons and the women a chemise when 
they are full-dressed. Some tribes still inter their dead in the 
“maloca,” or hut, which the Tucanas immediately abandon in 
order to build another. M. Thouar reports as the result of his 
last journey to the rapids of the Pilcomayo, that it is possible at 
any season of the year to go from the mouth of that river at 
Lamboné to the mission of San Francisco de Solano, in Bolivia, 
at the very foot of the Andes. The difficulties caused by ac- 
cumulations of trees and the consequent formation of shallows 
can, he believes, be overcome. 
Arrica— African News——The missionaries sent out by the 
Basel Missionary Society to the Gold coast have, since 1882, ex- 
plored the Volta basin pretty thoroughly, and the geographical 
results obtained have been considerable. A map of the routes is 
published in the April number of the Proc. Roy. Geog. Society. 
Lieutenants Kund and Tappenbeck struck southward from 
Stanley pool in August last, returning to Leopoldville on Janu- 
ary 27th. They crossed the Quango, also the Bolombo or 
Sankuru and its affluents, and descended the Lukenje to Kwa- 
mouth. It is stated that they have discovered a new river, the 
Ikata, which M. Wauters believes to be the upper course of the 
Mfini. The Bulletin of the Soc. Roy. de Geog. d’Anvers og 
tains an interesting account of an exploration upon the Senegal, 
from Futa-Djallon to Bambouc, undertaken by M. E. Noirot, who 
seems everywhere to have met with a good reception, and who i 
enthusiastic respecting the productions and future commerce ° 
the Senegal basin. e murder of the young and enterprising 
French traveler, Palat, at two days’ distance from In ah, is 
alleged to be due to the Senonsian fraternity. On the other hand, 
French journals-are disposed to lay much of the blame upon the 
French commandant, whose treatment of the adventurous aby 
lieutenant was such as to make the Arabs believe him pee om 
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