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venience or inadvertence, or that it despaired of our success, 
or that its affections were pre-engaged to the procedure we 
have noticed above, the Royal Geographical Society has not, 
as far as we know, afforded to our proposals any sort of notice 
whatever. | 
Something has been done to illustrate the condition of 
Kastern Africa, both as to its physical and political charac- 
teristics, by the voyages of Captain Owen and the observa~ 
tions of Lieutenant Emery. ‘That elucidation however is of 
small amount, and may be condensed into a narrow compass. 
In regard to the former work we have met with great dis- 
appomtment. Much of it is due certainly to the nature of 
the outfit: there was surely a wasteful parsimony in the 
Government, that it sent so few competent persons to profit 
by one of the most splendid opportunities for the survey of a 
new domain of organic nature which any period has offered. 
A Botanist was afforded from a private society; but his 
lamented decease left much undone, Other branches of 
natural history were left unattempted, and to do in that re- 
spect what might have been well done then, will require 
efforts equivalent in extent and expense. The narrator of 
the voyage has not dabbled very successfully in these mat- 
ters on the strength of his own knowledge: blunders in that 
respect, however, together with the multifarious gossip of 
the narrative, are in some respects redeemed by the im- 
portant facts which it occasionally discloses, and by the mi- 
nuteness and accuracy with which it may be inferred the 
main object of the expedition was prosecuted, in determining 
the varied and entangled outline of the extensive and inte- 
resting coast which it surveyed. 
The facts presented to us are of the following character 
generally :— 
1, That from beyond the Equator as far as the southern 
