Scottish geographical magazine . entlybeen visited by Dr. P. message from him reportscurious changes in the physicalgeography. The words are, Lake Ngami is dried up : thegame has died or gone away :vegetation exists no longer : boththe Kubango and the Taina-kan (?) flow into the Zambesi. Batanga River, West Africa.—A letter from Dr. Hugo Zbller,recently printed in the KblnischeZeitung (see Weekly Edition, , Thursday, 21st May), containsan account of his ascent of theBatanga or Moanya River, whichfalls into the Bight of Biafra,about 3° 16 35 N. lat. On ar-riving at Little Batanga,
Scottish geographical magazine . entlybeen visited by Dr. P. message from him reportscurious changes in the physicalgeography. The words are, Lake Ngami is dried up : thegame has died or gone away :vegetation exists no longer : boththe Kubango and the Taina-kan (?) flow into the Zambesi. Batanga River, West Africa.—A letter from Dr. Hugo Zbller,recently printed in the KblnischeZeitung (see Weekly Edition, , Thursday, 21st May), containsan account of his ascent of theBatanga or Moanya River, whichfalls into the Bight of Biafra,about 3° 16 35 N. lat. On ar-riving at Little Batanga, thetraveller was surprised to findhimself at the mouth of a reallyconsiderable stream, which hadnever been explored higher thanKing Yapites town. In the ac-companying sketch-map, repro-duced from the Kijhiische Zeitung,are given the results of his inves-tigations. From King Yapitestown, he writes, where wespent the night, we took with usthe kings son as guide and in-terpreter. When the chief Njea,who dwells on an island, at-. 388 GEOGRAPHICAL NOTES. tempted to throw difficulties in our way, as he had formerly prevented theadvance of the Englishman, Stone, we persuaded him by a promise of presents toaccompany us. We now left the district of the Beundo and Batanga tribes, andentered the territory of the Bakoko, which had never been visited by whitemen before. According to the local method of speech, the Bakoko are the bushpeople of the Beundo and the Batanga. At Jawanja, two war-canoes, eachmanned with eighteen Bakokos, annoyed us for several hours, but were preventedfrom actual hostilities by presents, fair speech, and the sight of our weapons fullyprepared. The report of the arrival of white men must have travelled upthe riverwith the swiftness of the wind, for all along both banks were occupied by crowds ofpeople. At Mahumbi, King Yapites town, we had heard a vague rumour about theexistence of a waterfall beyond which canoes could not ascend; and on the second dayof our vo
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