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due east of Sanga-Tanga ; whereas the map 
shows twenty. Mr. W. Winwood Reade declares 
that the Aping! country, the ultima Thule of the 
explorer, is distant from Ngumbi “ four foot-days’ 
journey;” as MM. de Compiegne and Marche 
have shown, the tribe in question extends far and 
wide. Others have asserted that seventy-five 
miles formed the maximum distance. But many 
of M. du Chaillu’s disputed distances have been 
proved tolerably correct by MM. Serval and 
Griffon du Bellay, who were sent by the French 
government in 1862 to survey the Ogobe. A 
second French expedition followed shortly after¬ 
wards, under the charge of MM. Labigot and 
Touchard; and finally that of 1873, like all pre¬ 
ceding it, failed to find any serious deviation from 
fact. 
The German exploring expedition (July 25, 
1873) confirms the existence of M. du Chaillu’s 
dwarfs, the Obongo tribe, scoffed at in England 
because they dwell close to a fierce people of 
Patagonian proportions. The Germans report 
that they are called “ Babongo,” “ Vambuta,” and 
more commonly “ Bari,” or “ Bali; ” they dwell 
fourteen days’ march from the mouth of the Luena, 
or River of Chinxoxo. I have not seen it remarked 
that these pygmies are mentioned by Andrew Battel 
Plinian at the end of the sixteenth century. “To 
the north-east of Mani Kesoch,” he tells us, “ are a 
