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never was called " Kiiisaraba," which name, if it exists at all, is the 

 designation of a forgotten village on its banks. The natives call this 

 sheet of water " Dweru,*' which simply means " the white," and is a term 

 applied to Lake Albert Edward and Lake Albert Nyanza by the Bantu- 

 speaking folk who dwell in the vicinity. "-Era" is a very old and wide- 



]N THE lIl'ANliA FOREST, TORO 



spread Bantu root for " white," and is constantly ap})lied to large sheets of 

 water, which of course, seen from a distance, do look white in the natives' 

 eyes, as no Negro tribe untouched by European or Arab influence has any 

 word for blue, but considers light blue to be white and dark blue to be 

 black. This root "-eru" reappears in Lake Mweru, for to the south, beyond 

 Tanganyika. Mweru is a very common name given to all the great 



