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will soon be given to the world, as they contain much interesting and valuable information.

Dr. Zerbiirchen, who for so many years has lived in Khartoum, is also dead.

Dr. Emin Bey continues in his position as Governor of the Equatorial Provinces, to which Monbuttu and part of Nyam Nyam country have been added lately. Lupton Bey has been appointed as Governor of the Bahr-el-Ghazel Provinces in Gessi Pasha's place, and the whole Province of Darfour is now under Slatin Bey.

The mystery which for so many ages has enveloped the mighty river is now solved, and lies open before me, for I have been permitted to trace the Nile through Egypt up to the Albert Lake, and thence to its home in the Victoria Nyanza ; and I claim the honour of being the first Englishman who has seen both the Victoria and Albert Lakes and returned in safety to England. The countries round the source of the Nile and those of the Western Soudan, which until recently have been shrouded by a thick veil of ignorance and uncertainty, are being explored and becoming known, and will in the future prove of increasing interest and profit to the civilised world, both for purposes of commerce and also as fields for colonisation.

That in the foregoing pages I have been enabled to lift a small portion of the veil, and add somewhat to the store of information, is my earnest hope.