ROSS BROWN, CHRISTOPHER. 



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Drinker, Abbott, and Osgood, and Mr Eoss 

 Brown, then a young traveller in a trading- 

 vessel. He also published a readable account 

 of the rising settlement. 



When Admiral Sir Charles Malcolm, a name 

 endeared to eastern geographers, was giving 

 energy and impulse to exploration in Western 

 Asia, the late Lieut. W. Christopher, L X., com- 

 manding the H. E. I. C.'s brig-of-war Tigris, 

 was sent to Zanzibar ; he made a practical sur- 

 vey of the coast, and he touched at many places 

 now famous — Kilwa (Quiloa), Mombasah, Brava, 

 Marka, Gob-wen (or the Jub River), and 

 Makdishu, or Hanir, by the Portuguese called 

 Magadoxo. He explored the lower waters of a 

 large stream, the Webbe (River) Ganana, or 

 Shebayli (Leopard), which he injudiciously 

 named the Haines River ; and he visited Giredi 

 and other settlements till then unknown. He 

 wrote (May 8, 1843) a highly interesting and 

 comprehensive account of the seaboard, which 

 was published in the Journal of the Geographi- 

 cal Society (vol. xiv. of 1844). His plans, 

 charts, and other valuable memoranda were for- 

 warded to the Bombav Government, and the 

 enterprising traveller died in July, 1848, at the 

 early age of 36, from the effects of a wound re- 

 ceived before Multan. 



