718 | General Notes. 
African News.—Dr. Fischer, whose relief expedition was at 
the southern end of Victoria Nyanza in January last, states that 
Mr. Mackay, the English missionary in Uganda, had received a 
lette? from Emir Bey, informing him that he and Dr. Junker, 
with Captain Cassati, were safe in Unyoro with King Kabarega. 
_ of the tide on the sandy fore shore. He also paid great atten- 
= tion to the influence of ocean currents upon the direction of the 
flow of rivers in their lowest course——Mr. Last has travel 
up the right bank of the Lujenda to its source. It 1s fertile pr 
_ filter through the sandy mound which separates it from 
me Lujenda. 
 America.—Zhe Gran Chaco,—Colonel Juan F. Cretz has sum 
the southern. 
height of the Chaco above sea level “is 984 feet. the 
between 27 > 21’ and 29° os’ S. lat., and 62° o4’ and 
, when the soil is sandy and impregnated with saltpetr y 
e Bermejo has been explored throughout its whole length, si 
