An interesting summary is given in Wednesday's Times of Count
Teleki's exploring expedition in East Africa, which many will read because it appears to have gone in the same direction as Alan Quatermain's imaginary journey to the land of the white race with the two Queens. Indeed, Count Teleki himself attempted early in his expedition,—unsuccessfully, we gather,—the ascent of Mount Kenia, the same whose white peak so fascinated Alan Quatermain and the little heroine who is rescued by him from the Masai. But instead of coming on the great lake, the subterranean river, and the white race and their wonderful manufactures in gold, Count Teleki only found a big lake, which they named Rudolf Lake, something like two hundred miles in extent from north to south, in an exceedingly barren country, where the few inhabitants can only support themselves by fishing in the lake, and where agriculture is very difficult. Alan Quatermain and his com- panions would have thought nothing of Count Teleki's dis- coveries; and yet they were painfully bought at the cost of much danger and privation.
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