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and liis accompanying memoir will, I trust, be hereafter published 
in the Society’s ‘Journal,’ and it must be to them, rather than to 
any description of my own, even when aided as I have been by the 
study of Mr. Galton, that I beg to refer all those readers who desire 
to learn the nature and the extent of our gains in African geography 
due to the indefatigable industry of our medallist, Dr. Barth. 
Cape of Good Hope . — A careful survey of the lower course of the 
Orange River has been made by our Associate, Mr. Moffat, the son 
of the well-known missionary, and the brother-in-law of Dr. Living- 
stone, under circumstances of difficulty, owing to the exceedingly 
desolate nature of the country through which that river runs. His 
paper is of interest, not only as an accession to the descriptive geo- 
graphy of an almost unknown region, or as delineating the northern 
boundary of our colony, but also as throwing light on the general 
physical geography and geology of that part of Southern Africa. 
Ocampo . — The country of the Ovampo, first reached by Messrs. 
Galton and Andersson, has again been visited by a party whose 
expedition ended disastrously. Two of the missionaries of Damara 
Land, accompanied by Mr. Green and a party of 30 Damaras, had 
hoped to cross Ovampo Land and to reach the river Cunene. The 
king of the Ovampo offered them hospitality, but on their arrival, 
for some unexplained cause, he peremptorily refused them passage, 
and when they had made ready to return, the population rose en 
masse, attacked them, and killed one of their attendants. After 
half a day’s defence, in which many of the Ovampo were killed, the 
party had the good fortune to escape unharmed into the wilderness, 
and after three days and two nights of forced marches reached a 
watering-place, and thence made their way back to Damara Land. 
The route of the travellers was parallel to that of Mr. Galton, and 
many geographical features were discovered, including a small lake, 
but the detailed account of their observations has not yet reached us. 
Mr. Andersson, the Swedish explorer, to whom we gave one of 
our honours in 1854, has announced his intention of himself travel- 
ling to the Cunene River, and he probably started on his expedition 
from Walfisch Bay in the beginning of this year. Although he 
describes himself as very inadequately equipped, we must hope that 
his long familiarity with South African travel will compensate for 
other deficiencies. 
Senegambia . — The districts adjoining the Senegal are becoming far 
better known to Europe than they have been hitherto. The French 
at St. Louis, dissatisfied with their position of dependence upon the 
