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second in praise of armour and the bow, &c.; and a portion of one of 
them was also given in verse. War chariots were in use, and banners, 
defensive armour, and various kinds of offensive weapons, bows and 
arrows, spears, &c., are referred to. 
14. Finally, allusion was again made to the number and elaborate¬ 
ness of the metres in the Rigveda; and as regards the occasional 
beauty and variety of the illustrative imagery, the moral depth of 
many of the sentiments, and the power of observation exhibited in its 
contents, reference is made to the hymns to the Dawn, and to seve¬ 
ral of those adduced in the course of the paper. In a few hymns 
we find the beginning of speculation on the origin of all things. 
One of these was communicated, rendered into English verse. 
The following Gentleman was elected a Fellow of the 
Society:— 
John Win zee, Esq., Assistant Surveyor, Civil Service, Ceylon. 
Monday , 21 st March 1870. 
The Hon. Lord NEAVES, Vice-President, in the Chair. 
The following Communications were read :— 
1. On the Lake Basins of Eastern Africa. By Keith 
Johnston, Jun., Esq., F.R.G.S. 
1. Livingstone s Recent Discoveries. 
In 1866 the indefatigable Dr Livingstone is again in Africa, with 
the determination of filling up the great gaps in our knowledge of 
the lake region from Nyassa to Tanganyika, beginning the great 
journey from which he has not yet returned. 
News arrived in England, in September 1866, that the traveller 
had, for a third time, entered the Rovuma river, and had succeeded 
in penetrating for 130 miles from its mouth, where he had found a 
friendly chief, whose residence he intended to make the starting- 
point of his expedition to the northern end of Nyassa, and the 
south of Tanganyika. A long period of silence then intervened, 
during which we were ignorant of the whereabouts of the traveller, 
till a report was brought to the east coast by some lying Johanna 
