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Geography of the Gaboon. 
Ghazal, was seen to trend westward. According to 
Mr. Consul Hutchinson (“Ten Years’ Wanderings 
among the Ethiopians,” p. 250), the Rev. Messrs. 
Mackey and Clemens, of the Corisco Mission “ ex¬ 
plored more than a hundred miles of country 
across the Sierra del Crystal Range of Moun¬ 
tains ”—I am inclined to believe that a hundred 
miles from the coast was their furthest point. We 
shall presently travel towards this mysterious 
range, and there is no difficulty in passing it, 
except the utter want of a commercial road, and 
the wildness of tribes that have never sighted a 
traveller nor a civilized man. 
The rivers of our region are of three kinds ; 
little surface drains principally in the north ; broad 
estuaries like the Mersey and many streams of 
Eastern Scotland in the central parts, and a single 
bed, the Ogobe, breaking through the subtending 
Ghats, and forming a huge lagoon-delta. Be¬ 
ginning at Camarones are the Boroa and Borba 
Waters, with the Rio de Campo, fifteen leagues 
further south ; of these little is known, except that 
they fall into the Bight of Panari or Pannaria. 
According to Barbot (iv. 9), the English charts 
give the name of Point Pan to a large deep bight in 
which lies the harbour-bay “ Porto de Garapo” 
(Garapa, sugar-cane juice ?); and he calls the two 
rounded hillocks, extending inland from Point 
Pan to the northern banks of the Rio de Campo, 
