84 REPORT 1851. 



GEOGRAPHY AND ETHNOLOGY. 



0?i the Origin and Institutions of the Cymri. 

 By George Barber Beaumont, F.G.S. 



A Summary of Recent Nilotic Discovery. By C. T. Beke, Ph.D., F.R. G. S.* 



After briefly recapitulating his views witii regard to the physical character of the 

 table-land of Eastern Africa, the position of the sources of the Nile in the Mountains 

 of the Moon, and the course of the direct stream of that river and of its several 

 tributaries, namely, the Bahr-el-Ghazal or Keilak, the Sobat orGodjeb, the Bahr-el- 

 Azrek or Astapus, and the Atbara or Astaboras, Dr. Beke adverted to the explorations 

 of the Rev. Dr. Krapf and Mr. Rebniann in Eastern Africa, to their discovery of the 

 Snowy Mountains Kilimandjaro and Kenia, and to the information obtained by 

 them respecting the great lake in the country of Uniamezi, or Mono-Moezi. He 

 then gave an account of Dr. Knoblecher's recent ascent of the Tubiri, as the direct 

 stream of the Nile is called, as far as 4° IJ' N. lat., where he ascertained that that 

 river comes from a considerable distance further south, and apparently from beyond 

 the equator. 



The distance from the extreme point reached by Dr. Knoblecher to Mount Kenia 

 is 370 geographical miles, and to the lake in Uniamezi it is 360 miles ; and the basin 

 of the Nile is apparently confined within these limits, unless indeed the river should 

 be found to flow out of the lake itself. Kenia is not improbably the " high mountain, 

 the top of which is quite white," which was described to Baron von Miiller as con- 

 taining the source of the Bahr-el-Abyad. 



These results are in general accordance with the statements of Ptolemy respecting 

 the sources of the Nile in the Mountains of the Moon, as elucidated and explained 

 by Dr. Beke on former occasions f. 



Addition by the Author. — On a subsequent journey far into the interior. Dr. Krapf 

 was informed that at the foot of the snowy mountain Ndurkenia, or Kirenia, is a lake, 

 from which (or its vicinity) flow three rivers — the Dana, the Tumbiri, and the Nsa- 

 raddi; the first two of which fall into the Indian Ocean, being the upper courses of 

 the Ozi and the Adi or Sabaki respectively, while the third flows northwards towards 

 a still larger lake, called Baringo, being in Dr. Krapf s estimation identical with the 

 Bahr-el-Abyad or White River. 



This information tends yet further to confirm Dr. Beke's conclusions. And if it 

 be only supposed that Dr. Krapf has inadvertently transposed the two names, Tumbiri 

 and Nsaraddi, so that it is, in reality, the former which flows northwards and leaves 

 the Nile, while it is the latter which falls into the Indian Ocean ; then that traveller's 

 Tumbiri will correspond with the Tubiri of M. Werve and Dr. Knoblecher, and his 

 Nsav-a(frfi with the Adi or Sabaki — a double coincidence rendering the matter little 

 less than certain.— See AthencBum of February 14, 1853, No. 1268, p. 198. 



On the Meteoric Iron of Atacama. By G. A. Bollaert. 



Some of the blocks of meteoric iron found there were alleged by the natives to 

 have risen or burst from the earth : they contained nickel and other metallic bases. 



On certain Tribes of South America. By W. J. Bollaert. 



A Comparison of Athletic Men of Great Britain with Greek Statues. 

 By J. B. Brent, M.A. 



Mr, Brent began by stating the difficulty of arriving at an accurate average of the 

 weights and measurements of the men of any given country. In order to obtain 



* Printed in extenso in the Philosophical Magazine for October 1851, 4th series (No. 11), 

 vol. ii. pp. 260-268. 



t See Report of the British Association for 1846, Report of the Sections, pp. 70-72 ; aud 

 see Report for 1848, Report of the Sections, pp. 63, 64, 



