AFRICA.
—The whole Bible has been translated into eight African tongues, and portions of it into 24 others, making 32 in all.
—According to the Agence Reuter, M. Roger will set out with the Belgian expedition and 135 natives to rejoin Stanley upon the Congo.
—Three Roman missionaries, of Ouroundi, have been massacred in their houses, near Tanganyika. Three others escaped. The last letters of the missionaries tell of the perils which they run on the part of the blacks from the calumnies of the Arab merchants in regard to those who endeavor to abolish the treaty.
—The Livingstonia Central African Company has established a factory at Inhamissengo, at the mouth of the Zambeze. It found there already two European companies, one Portuguese and the other French.
—Messrs. Creux and Berthond, of the Swiss mission at the north of Transvaal, are attempting to open a direct route from Valdezia to the Delogoa Bay.
—A company has been formed in Transvaal, with a capital of 200,000 livres, to explore the silver mines of Tati.
—The London Missionary Society’s mission on Lake Tanganyika has been carried on since its commencement, in 1876, at an expense of $100,000. There have been three deaths, and three have been obliged to retire on account of ill health. The society proposes to send out five new men in the Spring to recruit the mission.
—Mr. Adam McCall, leader of the Livingstone inland mission on the Congo, died at Madeira on November 24.
—Direct communication was to be established by submarine cable between Calle and Bizerte early in October.
—A scientific French mission at Thebes has discovered recently 36 sarcophagi of kings and queens inclosing mummies, rolls of papyrus, thousands of jewels and talismans, from which much may be learned of importance in the history of ancient Egypt.
—M. Ledoux, Consul-General of France at Zanzibar, reports a great famine in equatorial Africa. The tribes, in despair, have pillaged the caravans.
—M. Succi, delegate of the Italian Society of Commerce with Africa, has returned to Milan after a voyage to Madagascar and the Comores. The sovereign of one of these islands has granted to him a concession very advantageous for the Italian Society.
—In an exploration of Quango three great cascades have been discovered, to which the names of the emperors of Germany and Austria and the king of Portugal have been given.
—The military French administration has placed forty kilometres of railroading of the Decanville system from Sousse in the direction of Kaironan.
—After having been dangerously ill of bilious fever, Stanley has recovered sufficiently to go to Manyanga, and from there to Stanley Pool.