AFRICAN EXPLORATION.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1703, 5 August 1879, Page 3

AFRICAN EXPLORATION.

Dr. J. Mullens, the Foreign Secretary of the London Missionary Society, is, says the “ Academy,” about to undertake a journey of considerable importance in Eastern Africa. He proceeds, in the first instance, to Zanzibar, whence ho will go to XJjiji on Lake Tanganyika, where a party dispatched by his society have recently formed a settlement. On the road, however, ho will have a task to perform which will need much address on hie part, for wo hear that the caravan which was going up from the coast with supplies to the value of over £2OOO for the missionaries at Ujiji is detained by King Mirambo. This caravan was in charge of M. Philippe Broyon, who, it will be remembered, was first brought into notice by the Marseilles Geographical Society some two years ago as the son-in-law of Mirambo, which relationship is emphatically denied by the French missionaries. Having arranged this somewhat delicate business, and we trust satisfactorily, Dr. Mullins will organise the settlement at Ujiji and put there ona proper footing. That done, ho will turn his attention to more purely geographical work, and from his reputation as an ardent geographer there can be little doubt of his adding considerably to our knowledge of the lake region. Dr. Mullens’ programme includes,

Wff believe, the exploration of the shores of Laif Tanganyika, the investigation of the phenomena connected with it, and the examination' of the absolutely unknown tract of country between the south end of that lake and the north end of Lake Nyasaa, in which it is not impossible that he may anticipate Mr Keith Johnston in a portion of the work sketched out for'him by the African Exploration fund committee. Ur. Mullens takes out

with him an ample outfit of scientific instruments, of which ho will be sure to make good use.