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AFRICAN EXPLORATION.—The two African Societies of Berlin, which are now combined, have resolved to turn their attention to practical (i.e., commercial) objects as well as scientific ones with regard to the great continent in which the travels of Cameron and Stanley have revealed vast stores of the most varied products. The twin societies therefore invite all German merchants, manufacturers, &c., to participate in their efforts to open up a great African commerce, and announce that the German Government is ready to grant a preliminary sum of 100,000 marks (5,000l.) to further the object in question. The Germans seem determined that no single nation, more especially England or Portugal, shall have the supremacy on the Congo. In Switzerland a new geographical society has been formed for the same object as the above.—An official telegram from Zanzibar to Brussels announces the death at Zanzibar of Dr. Maes and Capt. Crespel, who were sent out by the International African Association as leaders of an exploring colony in Central Africa. With them were M. Cambier and Ernest Marno, and they were to establish a station somewhere in the Tanganyika region, which would form a centre of further exploration. The death is also announced of Capt. Elton, who, with Mr. Cotterill, was surveying the route between the north end of Lake Nyassa and the east coast.
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Geographical Notes . Nature 17, 324 (1878). https://doi.org/10.1038/017324a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/017324a0