of the river.  Islet of Shupanga. 17 51 38 . . .  May 12 Small islet in the middle of 17 59 21 . . .  May 13 the Zambesi, and six or eight miles below Shupanga.  Mazaro or Mutu, 18 3 37 35 57 0 May 14 2 2 where the Kilimane River branches off the Zambesi.  Kilimane Village, 17 53 8 36 40 0 7 June 13, 25, 27 1 6 at the house of Senor Galdino Jose Nunes, colonel of militia. ------------------------------------------------------------
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1 Probably 20d 25’.—­I.  A. 2 Probably 20d 10’.—­I.  A. 3 Probably 28d 56’.—­I.  A. 4 Probably 31d 46’ 30".—­I.  A. 5 Probably 31d 56’.—­I.  A. 6 Probably 35d 10’ 15".—­I.  A. 7 Probably 36d 56’ 8".—­I.  A.

Appendix.—­Book Review in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, February, 1858.

[This review is provided to allow the reader to view Livingstone’s achievement as it was seen by a contemporary.—­A.  L., 1997.]

Livingstone’s Travels in South Africa.*

   * ‘Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa’.  By
   David Livingstone, LL.D., D.C.L. 1 vol. 8vo.  With Maps and
   numerous Illustrations.  Harper and Brothers.

   ‘Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa’.  By
   Henry Barth, Ph.D., D.C.L. 3 vols. 8vo.  With Map and numerous
   Illustrations.  Harper and Brothers.

These two works, each embodying the results of years of travel and research, entirely revolutionize all our theories as to the geographical and physical character of Central Africa.  Instead of lofty mountains and sandy deserts, we have a wide basin, or rather series of basins, with lakes and great rivers, and a soil fertile even when compared with the abounding exuberance of our own Western valleys and prairies.

Barth, traveling southward from the Mediterranean, explored this region till within eight degrees of the equator.  Livingstone, traveling northward from the Cape of Good Hope, approached the equator from the south as nearly as Barth did from the north.  He then traversed the whole breadth of the continent diagonally from the west to the east.  His special researches cover the entire space between the eighth and fifteenth parallels of south latitude.  Between the regions explored by Barth and Livingstone lies an unexplored tract extending eight degrees on each side of the equator, and occupying the whole breadth of the continent from east to west.  Lieutenant Burton, famous for his expedition to Mecca and Medina, set out from Zanzibar a few months since, with the design of traversing this very region.  If he succeeds in his purpose his explorations will fill up the void between those of Barth and Livingstone.