148 Seven Years in ihc Soudan.

Stanley's map ; if so, poor Miani will regain tlie honour lie merited, showing once more what glory he Avould have added to the name of Italy if he had survived his misfortimes.

Miani ])laces the River Congo in the same latitude as Stanley, that is 30' X. lat. The river T noticed issuing from the Nile and flowing, as I have said, towards Sandeh, might, if it made a curve to the south in harmony with what Stanley writes and ]\Iiani has said, be a proof tliat the Congo also receives its waters from the Albert Nyanza, and therefore from the Victoria Xyanza. At Dufile there are still the two iron boats with which I made the circumnavigation of the lake, so that with very little expense and not much difficulty, the river mentioned could now be explored, and the question of whether it contributes its Avaters to the Bahr-el-ghazal, the Shari or the Congo solved.

Jamiarij lOfh. — Gordon Pasha, already suspected of being averse to all geographical expeditions in the territory he governs (a proof of which is given by the expeditions of Junker, Marno, and Lucas) has lately sent a circular to the Consuls of Khartoum, in which he clearly expresses his aversion to similar undertakings, and communicates to them the conditions which he desires to impose on travellers in the Soudan. He does not permit armed attendance to be enrolled without the authority of the Government, and thus he is able to hinder every movement of travellers.

January ISih, — We are awaiting our definite departure. On my return I hope to bring a rich collection of ethnological objects which 1 have already begun to collect ; those of Kaffa will be especially interesting, never yet having been brought to Europe.

- It is now known, after tlie travels of Junker, Casati, and Eniin, that the rivar Gessi supposed he had found, never existed, wliat lie saw being a wide arm of the Xile, which at that place is full of islands.