Most of the natives were friendly, and their fleets of thirty or forty canoes, filled with food for sale, often surrounded the steamer; and so, after twenty years of theory, guess-work, discussion, and exploration, the great river was at last revealed, from the mountains near the Nile that gave it birth to the place where it mingles with the Congo.


[THE ARMENIAN RELIEF COMMITTEE OF]

WASHINGTON SQUARE.

A Comedietta in One Act.

BY EDITH V. BRANDER MATTHEWS.

Characters:

Miss Silvia Brown, hostess.
Miss Harriett Spaulding.
Miss Grace Dunlap.
Miss Rose Hallam.
Miss Pauline Davenport.
Miss Catherine Cruger.

Time.—Present.

Place.—Miss Silvia Brown's home, overlooking Washington Square.