176 Notes on the Congo River. 
Professor Christian Smiths Collection of Plants 
from the Vicinity of the River Congo, by Robert 
Brown, F.R.S.” The “ Geology,” by Mr. Charles 
Konig, of the British Museum, is based upon very 
scanty materials. The folio must not be severely 
criticized; had the writers lived, they might have 
worked up their unfinished logs into interesting 
and instructive matter. But evidently they had 
not prepared themselves for the work; no one 
knew the periods of rain at the equator; there 
was no linguist to avoid mistakes in the vocabu¬ 
lary ; moreover, Professor Smith’s notes, being 
kept in small and ill-formed Danish characters, 
caused such misprints as “poppies” for papaws. 
Some few of the mistakes should be noticed for 
the benefit of students. The expedition appears 
to have confused Sao Salvador, the capital, with 
St. Antonio placed seven days from the river 
mouth (p. 277). It calls Santo Antao (Cape 
Verds) “San Antonio;” the Ilha das Rolas (of 
turtle doves) Rolle’s Island; “ morfil ” bristles 
of the elephant’s tail, and manafili ivory, both 
being from the Portuguese marfim; moudela for 
mondele or mondelle, a white man ; malava, “ pre¬ 
sents,” for mulavu (s. s. as msamba, not maluvi, 
Douville), palm wine, which in the form mulavu 
m’putu (Portuguese) applies to wine and spirits. 
We have also “ Leimba” for Lyamba or Dyamba 
(Cannabis sativa ); “ Macasso, a nut chewed by 
great people only,” for Makazo, the bean of the 
