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countries from the grasp of their blackened descendants. Snav bin Auiir, 

 returning to Unyamwezi, brought back with him full accounts of this 

 organised and civilised J^egro kingdom to the north. This news spread 

 rapidly amongst the tra,ding Arabs of the Zanziliar hinterland, and ccme to 



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the ears of the German missionary Krapf, and to Kebmann, his colleague. 

 (These two had already discovered the snow-mountains of Kilimanjaro 

 and Kenya, and were doing much to bring to our knowledge the names 

 and the features of inner P^ast Africa.) If Krapf did not first mention the 

 name " Uganda," then that revelation falls to Captain (afterwards t>ir 

 Richard) Burton. The discovery of these snow-mountains, and the stories 

 of great lakes which were told by Krapf and Kebmann, were the indirect 



