716 General Notes. 
them has been incorporated with Manchuria, is limited to two 
points, Wi-ju on the west and Kyong-heung on the east. Gensan, 
at the entrance of Port Luzanef, on the east coast, has a neat 
Japanese town as well as a native one. 
Bears, tigers, leopards, antelopes and several kinds of deer are 
raptores are plentiful; swans, geese, mallards, mandarin ducks, 
teals, bustards, cranes, herons, egrets, curlew, snipe, etc., are 
- abundant, and there are many woodpeckers. 
traces of some other faith appear in the *rigks, half-length 
figures carved in stone, with a cap different to that of Buddha. 
New Guinea.—Mr. Forbes (March toth) was in camp at Sugere, 
near Port Moresby, is on friendly terms with the natives, and in- 
tended to cross the Owen Stanley range when the rains ce a 
_ Captain Dickson reports that at Samoa haven, on the no 
coast, there are about fifty Germans, who appear to be healt 
= andare on good terms with the natives, which is not the case 
= Finsch haven. Both these settlements are on small islands. 
Captain John Strahan has re-ascended the Mai Kassa or cei Š 
river about 100 hundred miles, made several excursions, to ts 
interior, and discovered five smaller rivers between the Mai 
_ and the Gulf of Papua. ; 
-~ Asiatic News—A. Konschin maintains that the Uzbot me 
_ the old bed of the classic Oxus, but the result of the f the 
_ of the Aral from the Caspian sea, and of the overflow 0! 
_ Aralo-sarykamish waters into the Caspian. ‘ed by 
~ The Kermadec islands, which have recently been occu! 
miles N. N. E. from the North island of New Zealand Suit 
east of Norfolk island. The principal island is Raoul or > 
miles in circumference, rugged, and without an anchorage i 
_is covered with wood, and occupied only by a few white : 
[August, a 
_ the English Government, are a group of rocky islets ae aun 
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island (29°, 12’ S lat., 178°, fe W. long.) This is about weg 
