EXPEDITION TO CENTRAL AFRICA.

New Zealander, Volume 8, Issue 622, 31 March 1852, Page 3

EXPEDITION TO CENTRAL AFRICA.

Notwithstanding the death of Mr. Richaulsou, Dr*. Barth and Overweg will continue tLen journey as before. Full account:) fiom them have juat amved m Europe. In these they confum the tidings of the death of their companion, and lepoit favourably on their own health and progress. Dr. B.itth had arrived at Knno in February. At this place he remained duimg tliat month and the early part of Match ; and then, Dr. Owrweg not having yet lejomcd him, he set out for Kukn, —which place he reached, ns you know, on the 2nd of April. On his rirnvnl, he piesented himself at the Slinkli's palace as one of the surviving Chmtians who had come from England to bring him piesenU from Her Bnti-di Majesty. Mr. Ric-haid^n had died so suddenly that he was unable to leave, in his capacity as head of the expedition and official lepresentauve of the English Government, any directions as to the com se to b. J pursued generally ; and his interpreter and seivants had deposited everything belonging to linn with tbe Vizier ot (ioinu. Di. Barth was received with great kindness and hospitality by the Sultan. The happiness which he fell m receiving letters anil heaung fiom Europe after a lapse of neatly nine month*, ho says he was unable to describe. While awaiting the arnval of Dr. Overweg, Dr, Barth made prepaiations for the exploration ot Luke Tsad. and collected information re*peclin<*eveiy tjumter of Central Africa, with the zeal and inleftuigabili y uliuh distinguish tins enthusiastic tiaveller,— though the state of scanty piovision and diioij.auiMUon in which he found the whole expedition on his anival at Kuka were sufficient to have discouraged the nio^t eneigetic. '1 he Yiziei of Bornu lent him 100 dollais, with winch he was enabled to pay part of the salary due to Mr. Richardson's servnnts. On the 7th of April, a cornier from Kinder arrived ut Kuka with the news that Dr. Overweg hid just returned to the former place, and intended to proceed to Kuka eillipi direct or by the way of Kaiio. He had sent on his pfficw, believing Dr. Barth to be still there. Should he have been obliged to goby K.ino, let ushopo that he will have rejoined his companion in safety, — but "nice Di. Barth left that place, she way horn thente I as become very unsafe —faevoral cniavans of consideiabie size having been plundered in his reai, and the guides killed or wounded. On the 2Jtd of April, Di. Over wag not having arrived, Dr. Barth stinted on an excursion along Lake 'IVad, as far as Angornu. During two days he was h .11 the lime in the water —sometimes up to his horse's hack. He visited m that region all the Buddumas, a people who live on what by Denham weie desciibedas small island*, within the lake —but w hich turn out to be ex'ensive meadow lands, the su| erficial extent of which is much greatei than that of the lakeitstH. Tin's latter is described by Dr. liaiih as an immense inaihh, of wlneb the only portion lit for navigation is a deep chai n-1 formed by the Paver Shaty; which pouis na« luentiL' volumes oi watei into it,