... .DUTCH SLA VE-DEALING IN AFRICA. THE slave-dealing practices of the Dutch in Africa are causing serious trouble both in the south and on the west coast. An interesting pamphlet by Mr. F. W. Chesson,' which has just appeared, shows that the Transr Vaal ...

... occidentalis de Africa. The circumnavigation of Africa by Eudoxus of Cyzicus, the Periplus (log book) of H-lanno, the penal voyage of Sataspes were pronounced impostures by Ptolemy, Hipparchus, and Marinius of Tyre, who declared Africa and Asia to be ...

... CENTRAL AFRICA.* IT is now rather more than a quarter of a century since an expedition was despatched by the British Government, at the instigation of Lord John Russell and Sir Fowell Buxton, to pitch the Eglinton Tournament tent in Central Africa at the ...

... countries is so limited, and any new trustworthy information about them and about the circumstances of the long-lived Paraguayan war so deeply interesting, that we cannot sufficiently regret the want of skill and tact in this volume, which, however, is evidently ...

... or by the Italians grains of -paradise, flowed into the Mediterranean out of Africa. It was known that they did not come from the seven fruitful provinces, the Africa of ancient Rome which bordered the Mediterranean, nor from the vast desert of sand ...

... would not give a fig even to discover a tribe with tails. He states that his purpose has been to open up the interior of Africa to the operations of legiti- mate trade, hoping thereby-to extinguish the slave traffic and to promote the civilisation of ...

... geological changes, the results of which exhibit the most striking effects of the old strife of the elements, in times when Africa was not yet ready for the Moor, and when the country of ELIOTT was swathed in ice. The history proper, however, of Gibraltar ...

... an assertion which, like most pieces of mock modesty, we take to be the exact reverse of the truth. Travelling in Central Africa is so difficult that, as Dr. Johnson remarked about the dancing dogs, we could almost wish it was impossible. We would rather ...

... Hardly any sea remained unexplored by her navigators, her colonial possessions were numerous and important, while America, Africa, and India poured wealth into her treasury. Diaz, who in I486 discovered the Cape of Good Hope, named it the Cape of Tempests; ...

... Taking of Constantinople by the Turks to the Close of the War in the Crimea, 1453-1857, by Thomas H. Dyer; P Physical Geography of the Holy Laud, by the Rev. Edward Robinson r ; Modern War. - fare as influenced by Modern Artillery, by Colonel P. ...

... Charlie, and, as wenal, handles his subject admirably. These, with a paper on the e.getation of the lake Districts of :Xastern Africa, The Story of the GaNs, and The Last Oldenburyers, all very good in their say, complete the contents for March. B3NT1,f'S ...

... theatre, in the first appearance of the Zouavo artists, the h original founders of the theatre at Inkermain during the c Crimean war, and who, since the peace, have made a sun- cessful tour through the principal capitals of Europe. The a company, so far as ...