“To the southward of the river Longa is the fertile province of Benguela, where, instead of sandy plains, rich meadows watered by mountain-streams display themselves before the eye, covered with cattle and sheep, the principal riches of its pastoral inhabitants. The soil produces all the grains and fruits of Africa, America, and Europe, while from amid these favoured plains arise the magnificent mountains of the Naunos, whose lofty heads are lost in the clouds. From these mountains rush down fertilising streams; in their bowels are found iron, copper, sulphur, and other valuable productions, and the forests afford protection to herds of elephants, to rhinoceroses, stags, and a thousand different descriptions of wild animals, whose spoils constitute a principal portion of the gains of the merchants of Benguela and Mosammedes. This fertility extends over the cultivated plains of Bihe, Quilengues, Bumbo, Huila, Enjau, Caconda, Galengue, and Sambos, being bounded by the country of the Mocoands, which separates the Portuguese possessions from the illimitable deserts of sand which form the _ne plus ultra_ of our dominion.” N.B. I protest not only against the “illimitable deserts of sand,” but also against the southern portion of the map which accompanies the book, in which a magnificent but apocryphal river is made to meander through them, and over the very ground which I have crossed and recrossed.—F. G. [Illustration: Map of DAMARA-LAND AND THE ADJACENT COUNTRIES] RECENT VOYAGES AND TRAVELS. TWO VISITS TO THE TEA COUNTRIES OF CHINA AND INDIA. By ROBERT FORTUNE. _Third Edition._ With Map and Woodcuts. 2 vols. post 8vo. 18_s._ JOURNAL OF A WINTER’S TOUR IN INDIA. With a Visit to the Court of Nepaul. By the Hon. CAPT. EGERTON, R.N. With Woodcuts. 2 vols. post 8vo. 18_s._ VISITS TO THE MONASTERIES OF THE LEVANT. By the Hon. ROBERT CURZON. With numerous Illustrations. _Fourth Edition._ Post 8vo. 15_s._ FIVE YEARS’ HUNTING ADVENTURES AMONG THE WILD BEASTS AND SAVAGE ANIMALS OF SOUTH AFRICA. By R. GORDON CUMMING. _Third Edition._ With Woodcuts. 2 vols. post 8vo. 24_s._ LETTERS FROM SIERRA LEONE. Written to Friends at Home. By A LADY. Edited by Mrs. Norton. Post 8vo. 6_s._ THE ISLANDS OF THE WESTERN PACIFIC, including the FEEJEES, and others inhabited by the POLYNESIAN NEGRO RACES. By CAPT. JOHN ERSKINE, R.N. With Plates and Woodcuts. 8vo. 16_s._ LIFE IN ABYSSINIA: Being the Personal Narrative of an Englishman during Three Years’ Residence in Abyssinia. By MANSFIELD PARKYNS. With Map and Illustrations. 2 vols. 8vo. NOTES DURING A TOUR IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA. By SEYMOUR TREMENHEERE. Map. Post 8vo. 10_s._ 6_d._ TRAVELS AND RESEARCHES IN ASIA MINOR, more particularly in the Province of Lycia. By SIR CHARLES FELLOWS. _Second Edition._ Maps and Plates. Post 8vo. 9_s._ SOLITARY RAMBLES AND ADVENTURES OF A HUNTER IN THE PRAIRIES. By JOHN PALLISER, Esq. With Illustrations. Post 8vo.