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25. fièvres chaudes, peste noire, éléphantiasis : brain fever, black plagucy éléphantiasis. See Eng. Dict.

26. feu Cambyse: the late Cambyses. Cambyses, king of Persia, soon after his conquest of Egypt, in 525 B.c., sent an army of fifty thousand men to occupy the oasis of Ammon, but they nearly ail perished on the way.

27. ne parvint à l'apaiser un peu qu'en lui expliquant que ce n'était pas pour tout de suite : succeeded in quieting him a little only by explaining that he was not going af once.

28. Il faut savoir où l'on va, que diable ! Good gracious ! a man must know where he is going.

29. Mungo Park was bom in Scotland in 1771. He made his first expédition to the River Niger in 1795-6, and lost his life in a second expédition to the same country in 1805.

30. Caillé. René Caille, a Frenchman, was born in 1799, and died in 1838. He travelled over the same part of Africa as Park did, and was the first to bring back to Europe authentic news of the fate of Park and his party.

31. Livingstone. David Livingstone, the most famous of African explorers, was born in Scotland in 1813 ; he died in Africa in 1873. He traversed the southem portion of that country repeatedly during the last thirty-three years of his life.

32. Henri Duveyrier. Henri Duveyrier, who was born in 1840, has travelled extensively in Northern Africa, and has published several books of his tours.