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Title: Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860
Year: 1860 (1860s)
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Publisher: New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
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e-trappings and apparel whichhad belonged to the dead Sultan. A hundredhorses and a thousand sheep were slaughteredto provide for these funereal solemnities, whichlasted for several days, until the people gradual-ly departed for their homes. But for a wholeyear the chanting at the Sultans grave waskept up at sunrise and sunset. The space allotted to this article is exhausted ;and yet Ave have left untouched many of thepoints of Mr. Atkinsons narrative to Avhich Avehad purposed to allude. The life of the officialsof the Empire, dispatched to forAvard its inter-ests upon this distant frontier—a life aboundingin hardship and adAenture—has remained un-touched in this paper. For this and otherkindred topics, and especially for an account ofthe region drained by the Amoor, Ave must referour readers to the Avork of Mr. Atkinson, and tothat of our OAvn countryman Mr. Collins, anabstract of whose journal has already appearedin the pages of this Magazine. A JOURNEY TO THE LAND OF THE MOON.*
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A VILLAGE INTERIOK IN THE LAND OF THE MOON.Utanta or Loom. Iwanza, or Public-houses. DUEING the disastrous years 1857-58, whilethe great commercial panic and the cruelIndian mutiny filled all Christendom Avith fearand trouble, tAVO travelers, starting from nearlyopposite points on the Avidest expanse of theAfrican continent, Avere endeavoring, throughall manner of hardships and dangers, to pushtheir explorations to the very heart of the greatterra incognita. If Mercury, the god of traAel-ers, were a Frenchman, he would certainly havedecreed that these two adAenturous spirits, whowere, single-handed, breasting the perils of thisgreat waste, should meet and shake hands uponthe highest peak of that range which, their dis-coAcries render it probable, crosses the continentwithout deviating far one Avay or other from the * The Lake Regions of Central Afnca, a Picture ofExploration. By Richard F. Bukton, Captain H.M.I.Army, etc. 8vo. AVith numerous Illustrations. Pub-lished by Harper and Bro

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