DR. LIVINGSTONE

and Dr. Barth have each returned from Africa within a few months, having done more than had been done in many years, and by every traveler, in explorations of that hidden continent. Dr. Barth has even reached Timbuctoo-the half fabulous African city-and when the plan of the investigations shall be carried out a little further, and the sources of the Nile shall be exposed, Africa will be dumb no longer, and the great geographical problem will be settled.

We propose to lay before our readers an account of this last great expedition, using the traveler's own words as much as possible.

On the 5th of October, 1849, at Berlin, Professor Carl Ritter informed Dr. Barth that the British Government was about to send Mr Richardson on a mis