Trade of the Soudan with Italy.

tamarinds. As soon as I arrive I shall send samples to Italy. This is the best commercial road to the Soudan, there being no danger of the boats being lost, while, by way of Kordofan, the route is very dangerous, and many merchants have suffered great losses. L wish — if the firm of Erba will entrust its interests to me — to establish a house on a solid basis, and my only desire is that we Italians may find purchasers in Africa for our productions. All the houses here have grown rich. Why should not we do the same ?

Jaiiuarij 2nd, 1878. — I have read, with all the interest Avhich is awakened by reports of such high importance, the account of Stanley's journey. My attention was arrested with friendly satisfaction to the hypothesis put forward by the daring explorer, that the Albert Nyanza is a reservoir not only of the Nile but also of the Congo. (?)

When in April of 1876 I made the circumnavigation of the lake, T observed that the water only discharged itself into the Nile, nor did I perceive that it had any other outlet. However, in the lecture I delivered at Rome, and in the various plans I sent to the Geographical Society, I related and marked the discovery at two-thirds of the way between Dufile and the lake, a large arm of a river, more than seven hundred feet wide, which fiowed in the direction of north-north- west. I asked for information from the natives, and learned that this new river Avent very far, but no one knew what course it took.

This arm could not form a cul-de-sac, seeing that the force of its current attained a speed of two miles an hour, and I then thought that this mysterious river must flow into the Sandeli. I think it is not improbable that the arm I observed between Dufile and Lake Albert joins the river Aruwimi traced on ' Gcssi's notes are now important to Italy, since tlie route lie took is under her protectorate. — Ed.

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