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Literary Intelligence , Sfe. 
Baron Deekan leaves this for Momlass in a few days. He will 
return to the Jagga territory, thence turn the Kilimagari snow- 
peak, and push on North for Kenia; coming back again to the 
coast of the Masai haunts. 
Some months ago I proposed a tour to this Kenia. My idea was 
and is, that it is the highest peak of all; and the centre of a 
group whose eastern streams run down to the Formosa Bay south 
of Sanoo, under the names of the Ozi, the Dana (probably the main 
stream) the Pamumla, &c. I cannot help also conjecturing that 
streams run N. W. from Kenia. Government properly considered 
that I should not leave my post at Zanzibar for any length of time ; 
hence I could not undertake the trip in person. But I feel pretty 
sure that if prosecuted across Kenia and to the north point of the 
Victoria Lake, it would be one of the most interesting tours pos¬ 
sible. 
You say some gentlemen wish to come to Zambezi on a shooting 
expedition. Allow me to mention that some time ago Baron Deekan 
entered at Wanga, south of Wasseenpar : of latitude north point 
of Pemla Islands, and passed ten days in land W. and E. South to 
the Lake Zijse, through which passes the river Paugani debouching 
nearly opposite to Zanzibar. The Baron’s route was good, practica¬ 
ble for donkeys, tribes not hostile, passed after leaving the coast, the 
Wadigo country, keeping the Umba river always on the right, in 
four days reach Baramu belonging to the IJsumbarah king. Pass 
villages of Tassini, Tesa, Mikueni, Tesamkuba, of the Wadigos, 
then three days through the wilderness (game, antelopes, gazelles, 
pig, rhinoceros, fowl, zebras, giraffes, buffaloes, &c.,) then from 
Baramu to Pare, two days’ sport the same, then from Pare over 
Kiswani in two days to the Lake Zijse, the lake is some thirty miles 
long and two to three broad, its western point only three hours from 
Daffeta where you can buy supplies. This sporting-ground is mag¬ 
nificent : elephants, hippopotamus, rhinoceros, lion and all game 
down to the smallest. 
There is only one day’s march during which no water is procurable. 
A party leaving Bombay during the north-east Monsoon, by Buggalow 
could reach Zanzibar in eighteen or twenty days ; and be on their 
shooting ground in a month from date of quitting India. 
Mr. Cooke just now left me to put up some specimens for you. 
