MR MAC QUEEN. 



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which compose it 1 to a N. "W. and S. E. rhumb. 

 As afterwards appeared, Mr Macqueen had con- 

 fused the Tanganyika and Xyanza waters by 

 placing the centre of the former in long. (G.) 

 29°. This, however, was not suspected when 

 my excellent and venerable friend gave me the 

 rough proofs of his paper, which travelled with 

 me into Central Africa. Mr Macqueen has also 

 done good by editing (Journal Royal Geographi- 

 cal Society, vol. xxx.) the Journeys of Silva 

 Porto with the Arabs from Benguela to Ibo and 

 Mozambique, and by other labours too numerous 

 to be specified. 



A pause in East African exploration followed 

 the departure of Dr Krapf. M. Erhardt, whose 

 project of entering via Kilwa was not supported, 

 had joined his brother missionaries in India. 

 M. Rebmann alone remained at Rabai Mpia. 



1 The 'JNyassi' is, in fact, a general reservoir into which are 

 thrown the Lakes Tanganyika, the Xyassa, the Shirwa, and the 

 four smaller waters, the Liemba, the Bangweolo, the Moero of 

 the great river Chambeze, and the Liemba drained by the 

 Lufira-Luapula stream. The latter, lying between S. lat. 

 10° — 12°, have lately been reported by Dr Livingstone (Map 

 of the Lake Eegion of Eastern Africa, showing the Sources of 

 the Nile recently discovered by Dr Livingstone, with notes, 

 &c, by Keith Johnston, jun. (Johnston); and we have a Sketch 

 Map of Dr Livingstone's recent Explorations — Eine Karten- 

 skizze, &c. Erom Dr Petermann's Geographische Mittheilun- 

 gen, Part V., for May, 1870 (Gotha, Perthes). 



