The daily press. (Cincinnati [Ohio) 1859-1859, 1859-06-09
The DlscOverers of 1858 and 1859.


We reproduce from La France Coloniale,
the following interesting account of the ex-
plorations now in progress throughout the
world .. -,
The world has been pretty we'll discovered.
Portions only Of Africa, Australia, Indo-
China, the Indian Archipelago, and the Polar
Regions, remain for the enterprise of gov
ernlnents, learned societies, and men who
are brave as we'll as curious.
Mile. Ida Plelier, after travelling through
Palestine, Northern Europe, and twice
around the world, in a fifth journey at
tempted Madagascar. Queen Raravola re-
ceived her kindly, then became suspicious,
and finally ordered her to leave the island
Immediately. She was taken with other
Europeans, it is supposed intentionally, TO
low, swampy coast, where foreigners never
escaped the fever. She took the fever, was
made worse by her homeward voyage, and
a,ed on the 1th OF October last, at the age of
bl, in one of the suburbs of Vienna.
The Englishman, Couthard, died q tor
riole death, by thirst, in the inner desert of
Australia. A traveller, Babbage, found his
body III thicket, and tin cup near by on
which he had scratched a few lines with n
nail, which made known the frightful suffer-
lnSs that preceded his death. Coulthard set
out with two other Englishmen, Scott and
Brooks, who probably have persisted.
Adolph Sohagntweit has been murdered by
troop Of rebels against the Chinese authori-
ties, in village of Thibet not far from Yark-
and. 80
The death Of DR.. Edward Vogel, who had
travelled over Lake Tsad, Bornu Baguirmi
and the country Wadai, west of Durfur, is al
most certainty. The rumor that he was
murdered by the command of the Sultan of
| Wadai, may have arisen from the probable
| fact that he was kept as a prisoner; a cause for
either may be found in his imprudence in
climbing to the peak of one of their sacred
| mountains.
The wife of Sir John franklin is not vet re
| signed to bear the sorrowful name of widow
Last year she sent out the yacht Fox, in COM
mand of Capt. McClintock, to search for her
husband. BY tho latest accounts, the Fox,
taking the Beechey Island route, m cant to sail
into Fish River, passing to the east of King
| Williams Land. .. ...
For some months past, new Arctic expedi-
tion has been in preparation in the United
States. The worthlessness of the Northwest
Passage, discovered by Capt. Mcclure five or
six years ago, cools no Arctic ardor; the Open
Polar Sea is now the great Arctic problem.
The Geographical Society of ST. Petersburg
has sent u number of naturalsts to Siberia,
and u learned Finn, DR.. Nordenskiold, of Hell.
singfors, has pursued his observation as far al
| Spitzbergen. a I' pad.
On the American continent an officer of the
English Navy, Capt. Palliser, has been 80 fortu-
| nate as to ind passage through the Rocky
Mountains in British America
In South America, the Frenchman, DR.. Plas-
sard, who is settled in Cindad Bolivar, has
| undertaken an excursion into the interior of
| Venezuelan Guyana, and found gold to the
South of lower 0rinoco, toward the Yuruari
| AT kio Janeiro, Messrs. Capanema, Lagos
Gonsalvo Diaz are preparing for second expe-
dition into the interior of Brazil. They will
have military escort.
DR.. Schmarda, the Austrian naturalist is on
his return from his voyage to Cape Sydney and
| New Zealand. So also have DR.. Tschudi and
Or. tlesaeh returned from their expeditions
into the interior of South America.
The Austrian corvette Carolina, on visit to
the harbors of South America, and the frigate
Novara, ON voyage round the world, were at
the philippines when last heard from.
In the Southern Atlantic the English Capt.
CubinS believes that he had, within the year,
found new group of islands on the track of
Australian bound vessels. ....... .
But the great magnetic center to which most
discoveries instinctvely turn, is still the inte-
rlor OF Africa. Those vast countries, which
are represented in blank on our maps, have
been attacked from all sides-east, west, north
| and south.
The renowned DR.. Livingstone is now max.
Ing an excursion in those countries which he
| discovered during his long journey from St.
Paul de Loanda to Quilimane.
The English steamer, the Rainbow, sailed
on the 9th January out of Bonpy into the Gulf
of Benin, to explore the country along the Nj.
ger. Ladislaus Magyar, of TheresiopoI, in
Hungary, who, after the Hungarian insurree-
tion, became citizen of Brazil, has hit upon
rather singular, but very prudent way to pen
citrate into the mysteries of inner Africa, with
the greatest possible safety and advantage.
| lie has Just married the daughter of the black
King Of Bihe, in Upper Guinea. He has be-
come commander-in-c chief of the armies of his
iather-ln-law, and uses his authority and his
soldiers to become acquainted with the ooun-
tries lying in his neighborhood.
Jules Braouerec, commander of the corvette
Disc, is now exploring the wholly unknown
country through which the Gaboon river runs
The Swedish discoverer, Anderson, has
travelled Ovampo, on the west coast of Africa
south of Benguela, in the direction of the
| Cuenene river.
On the east and south coast of Africa, two
| English officers, Capt. Burton and Lieut.. Speke,
found and measured, last summer, the great
lake Uyiyi, between deg. 80 min, and deg
Az min, south lattude-not to be confounded
with lakes Nyassa and Ukerewe, SO much
| talked of in late years. Until this discovery,
there was ground for belief in u great central
sea in Africa, stretching from II deg. south
latitude, to the equator; but this discovery is
conclusive that the great bodies of water which
have hitherto been discovered at widely distant
points, are separate lakes. ,...
The French missionary, Leo des Avanchers,
is travelling through the country which lies to
the eastward of the great sea. The German
traveller, Albert Roscher, has gone in the same
direction, having left Zanzibar with the hope of
penetrating far into the interior
| Pedro de Gamitto, Governor of the Portu-
| guese forts, Tete and Sena, on the Zambeze, is
making preparations for new explorations in
Central Africa, of which he has already given
such interesting descriptions, in his book "Mu-
| alta Cazembe."
Massage, the Sandman missionary, is now
exploring the interior of Abysinuia; SO also is
Bayssere.
The Upper Nile is the object of untiring ex
ploration. 1t would be strange if, before the
end of this century, its whole course were not
as well known as is now that of the Thames
the Seine or the Rhine.
Other travellers, also, such as Capt. Magnap,
Baron Kraft, and Yussurf ben Gallabi, are bent
on discovery, starting from Algers or other
northern points. Asia, too, is being explored
by many travellers: but as yet we have but few
! details of their discoveries. Kriel has been
| sent bY the Vienan Academv into A siatio Tn