M. MAIZAN. 



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appeared in 1860 (Travels, Researches, and Mis- 

 sionary Labours, &c., &c., with an Appendix by- 

 Mr P. G. Ravenstein, E.E.G.S. London, Triibner 

 and Co.). I venture to suggest that he might 

 reprint with great advantage to African students 

 his various journals, scattered through the num- 

 bers of the e Church Missionary Intelligencer/ 

 We want them, however, printed textually, with 

 explanatory notes embodying subsequent inform- 

 ation. 



Meanwhile the difficulties of East African 

 exploration were complicated by a terrible disas- 

 ter. M. Maizan, an Ensigne de Vaisseau, re- 

 solved to explore the inner lake regions via the 

 Zanzibar coast, and in 1844 his projects were 

 approved of by his government. After the rains 

 of 1845 he landed at the little settlement Bag- 

 amoyo, and when barely three days from the 

 seaboard, he was brutally murdered at the vil- 

 lage of Dege la Mhora, by one P'hazi Mazungera, 

 chief of the Wakamba, a sub-tribe of the Waza- 

 ramo. The distinguished hydrographer Captain 

 Guillain was sent in the brig of war Le Decou- 

 edic, to obtain satisfaction for this murder, and 

 the following sentence concludes his remarks 

 upon the subject (Chap. 1, pp. 17 — 20) ; ' Tout 

 ce que je veux, tout ce que je dois me rappeler de 



