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a friend to Europeans, and especially fond of Italians, and paid us every attention Avliich his refined education could suggest. His house is in the best situation. It is on a lofty point between the town and the mountains ; it overlooks the former, and has a distant view of the chain of the G-anius, the steep and pointed summits of Avliich show against the horizon. At Famaca there are numerous prisoners, iartly political, partly criminal, all of them wretches Avho drag out a most miserable existence, and I believe they are grateful to the pale Angel of Death who frequently relieves them from the burden of their lives.

The people who inhabit this country are, we think, nothing but aborigines of Ethiopia, and I do not know how Bruce, Calliaud, and Marno made them out to be the descendants of the Dinkas or Shilluks.

It is not necessary to be an anthropologist, and still less a member of scientific academies, to perceive that these illustrious writers, in affirming such a thing, have been guided not so much by what they themselves observed, as by what they found Avritten in books that treat of the various emigrations of African peoples. Xot even history can escape the exact control of science, and all the more such history as would lift the mysterious veil of epochs lost in the lab3h'iuth of centuries. An ethnographic disquisition here woidd be idle, but we declare that we will not withdraw from such an imperious obligation, because it is not our desire to affirm but to prove.

Fadasi was the last station visited by Marno in 1870, when he too was travelling in the country of the Galla, but, vanquished by the difficulties he met with, was obliged to turn back again.

Two days ago a special courier reached us, sent from Khartoum by our friend Rosset, the bearer of a despatch from the Italian minister, which announced that the Marquis Antinori had reached Kaffa(?).