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SOME modifications have been made in the composition of the fifth International Expedition to Central Africa. Lieut. Harou, who was to have formed part of the expedition, will only join his companions at a later period on the Upper Congo. He is charged, meantime, with a secret mission to Africa, for the accomplishment of which about ten months are necessary. After the termination of this mission he will join the expedition. M. Harou will embark about the 23rd for his new destination. We learn that Dr. Dutrieux, who had to return from Africa to Belgium to recruit his health, is about to return to Africa to take part in the service for the abolition of slavery, at the head of which is Col. Sala. He had begun when in Africa a dictionary of the Suaheli language, so common all over Central Africa. Although incomplete, the Executive Committee of the Association have decided to print the dictionary as it is, and put it in the hands of travellers for correction and completion.
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Geographical Notes . Nature 22, 376 (1880). https://doi.org/10.1038/022376a0
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