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Aar. L-1. Narrative of an Expedition to the Zambesi and its Tutaries, and of the Discovery of the Lakes Shirwa and , 1858-1864. By David and Charles Livingstone. Luca, 1865.

tches of Dr. David Livingstone to H.M. Principal ry of State for Foreign Affairs.

mary Travels and Researches in South Africa. By A Livingstone, LL.D., D.C.L. London, 1857.

4r of Bishop Mackenzie. By Harvey Goodwin, D.D., Dean of Ely. London, 1864.

als of the Royal Geographical Society.

THE nineteenth century will be for ever memorable in the annals of African discovery. The mystery which for ages ai hang over the interior of the great continent has been in a measure dispelled. Equatorial Africa especially no longer ars as a blank in our maps. Many of its countries and ical divisions have been laid down with tolerable certainty, the positions of some of its rivers and mountains partially d; but the great lake discoveries more than any other excited the wonder and admiration of Europe. All our onceived ideas of the interior of the great continent have reversed; for regions which were supposed to be a of everlasting drought, under the perpetual, unclouded of a vertical sun, have been found to be refreshed with tant showers, irrigated by perennial streams, and teeming inhabitants. The further discovery of stupendous mounLas crowned with eternal snow, within a short distance of the ator, added greatly to the surprise of geographers; and as a imax to an unexampled series of brilliant discoveries, the Nile s confidently said to have at last revealed its mysterious ntains, and the secret of ages to be disclosed.

These important geographical discoveries have chiefly been ade from the eastern coast. The missionaries Krapf and Rebann, whose station was at Mombas, a few leagues to the east of Zanzibar, although they did not greatly enlarge our knowledge the interior, yet were the precursors of Burton and Speke & those more extensive explorations, the results of which have so Vol. 119.-No. 237. honourably

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