May 24, 1858.] 
AFRICA- BURTON AND SPEKE. 
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let ns hope, will be furnished from the Zambesi, and out of 
territories now about to be explored by Livingstone and his 
comrades. 
Expedition from Zanzibar and Mombas into Eastern Africa . — Captain 
Burton and his colleague, Captain Speke, have now fairly set 
to work upon their great expedition into Eastern Africa. When 
they first arrived at Zanzibar many circumstances concurred to 
recommend a preparatory trip, and the party travelled from 
Mombas as far as Fuga, following the course of the Pangany 
river. The setting in of the rains made further progress impos- 
sible, and no new information was acquired by Captain Burton upon 
the white-capped mountains of Kilimandjaro and Kenia. Having 
partly recovered from the severe acclimatising fever (which no 
traveller from the Zanzibar coast can avoid, and which had totally 
prostrated the members of the expedition), the rains having subsided, 
and porters, asses, guides, with an escort having been procured, 
Captain Burton sailed with his numerous party from Zanzibar to 
Baga Moyo, and at once started for the interior. Two communica- 
tions have reached us relating his further progress ; the last of them 
was dated Sept. 6th, S. lat. 6° 40', and E. long. 35° 40', or at a 
distance of about 200 geographical miles from the sea coast in a 
direct line. These communications consist chiefly of route maps 
by Captain Speke, on a large scale, together with numerous obser- 
vations for latitude and elevation. 
On leaving Baga Moyo the party proceeded up the Pangany 
river to a distance of 120 geographical miles from the sea-coast, 
passing over an extremely luxuriant country, very level, and 
abundantly cultivated, but apparently, like other great alluvial or 
delta accumulations on the immediate sea-bord of Africa, pesti- 
lential to European constitutions. At about E. long. 36° 50' a 
hilly district was reached, which proved to be the face of a vast 
elevated tract, gradually sloping upwards towards the interior. At 
the point whence we last heard from Captain Burton the land had 
attained an altitude exceeding 2000 feet, and a still more elevated 
country w r as before him. 
It will be of extreme interest when Captain Burton’s report of 
the geology of the country shall reach us ; for even the facts 
stated seem to bear out the opinion I advanced from this chair at 
the Anniversary Meeting of 1852, and which the subsequent dis- 
coveries of Livingstone corroborated in a satisfactory manner, 
namely, that South Africa certainly, and the whole of the continent 
