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The recent explorations in Africa have developed our Geographical Knowledge so much that a very special interest is imparted to many of these specimens by giving carefully the situations from which they have been procured—thus. The Ivory pipe of King MTESA fromUGANDAVictoria nyanza is from a new Country & the ornamentation very refined & delicate. next the long one 8 ft. presented by the Khedive to the British Museum is from theMONBUTTOO tribeN. W. of theALBERT NYANZA. The Lower one is from the SHIRÉ River near the Murchison Falls & used for Wild Hemp by the Manganja people.