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DR KRAPJi. 



Bourbon, the north of Madagascar, and the 

 Comoro Islands, and to one of the two lines pre- 

 dominating on the coasts of southern Africa 

 wherever there are no alluvial flats.' It abound- 

 ed, moreover, in minor but significant errors, such 

 as confounding ' Zanganyika,' a town or tribe, 

 with Tanganyika, the name of the Lake. Of 

 late years Mr Cooley has once more shifted his 

 position, and has declared that he did not intend 

 to provide central intertropical Africa between 

 6 Monomotapa 5 and Angola with a single lake. 

 The whole of his paper on the ' Geography of 

 N'yassi ' means that if it mean anything. He is 

 not, however, the only Proteus — hard to find and 

 harder to bind — amongst African geographers. 



To conclude this notice of the £ Mombas Mis- 

 sion, 5 Dr Krapf again visited Euga, where he was 

 followed by Mr Erhardt, and finally the two mis- 

 sionaries ran down the coast, touched at Kilwa, 

 and extended their course to Cape Delgado. In 

 August 1855 Dr Krapf, after 18 years' residence 

 in Africa, bade it farewell ; he did not revisit it 

 except for a few months in 1867, when he acted 

 dragoman to the Abyssinian Expedition. In 

 January 1856 appeared what has been called the 

 6 Mombas Mission Map ' (Skizze nach J. Er- 

 hardt' s Original), the result of exploration and of 



