L'histoire de l'Afrique et ses explorateurs . Les Chutes Victoria-pionniers de la civilisation s'est entretenu avec-M. Collard-Dr. Bradshaw andSenhor-Anchieta Le Kalahari et Baines déserts caractères du pays-Matteucci et MassarisJourney d'Égypte vers le golfe de Guinée-Sultans accueillants et sinon-La mort de Matteucci-Wissmanns Premier voyage à travers l'Afrique-une belle histoire et un petit lac-une personnes artistique-lSS-1 un an pour l'Afrique-Arnots Voyage-Katanga-confusion des deux côtés de la nomenclature-aStory Capello et Ivens, votre voyage d'un océan à l'autre-Gleerups Transit-Lenzs theCongo Oskar se déplace de la Z

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The story of Africa and its explorers . The Victoria Falls—Pioneers of Civilisation met with—M. Collard—Dr. Bradshaw andSenhor Anchieta—The Kalahari and Baines Deserts—Character of the Country—Matteucci and MassarisJourney from Egypt to the Gulf of Guinea—Sultans Hospitable and Otherwise—Death of Matteucci—Wissmanns First Journey across Africa—A Great Story and a Small Lake—An Artistic People—lSS-1 a Brisk Year for Africa—Arnots Journey—Katanga—Confusion of Nomenclature—Two Sides to aStory—Capello and Ivens Journey from Ocean to Ocean—Gleerups Transit—Oskar Lenzs Travels from theCongo to the Zambesi —Changes on the Upper Congo since Stanleys First Descent—Tippoo Tib—ArabSettlements—Kasongo—Tanganyika Reached—The Stevenson Road—Nyassa—The Sea—Wissmanns SecondJourney across the Continent—Ravages of Arab Raiders—The Tanganyika and Nyassa Lakes—WaningInterest in Transcontinental Journeys—Speed at which they were performed—Getting to be mere Geo-graphical Records.. 41 HE year 1877 was anotable one in theannals of African ex-ploration. Shortly be-fore that date Lieu-tenant Cameron hadreturned from his ex-pedition across Africa(Vol. II., p. 266); still more recently Stanley had descended theCongo ; and, above all, the journey of Living-stone—which had been finished in the Portu-guese possessions—was still fresh in publicmemory. However, though these British travel-lers had reached the Atlantic within Lusitanianterritory—and in those days Portugal claimedthe Congo—the Portuguese themselves haddone little for the exploration of the country 2 THE STOBY OF AFRICA. under their flag. Their colonies extendedwithout any determined frontiers to the east andto the west; but their boundaries, the course ofthe rivers and the trend of the mountains, even within the Hmits of these colonies, werebut little known. Vague stories, we have seen, circulated regarding early Portuguese travel-lers (Vol. II., pp. 163-166); b

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