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information reached the mi^^sionaries estalihshed at Mombasa during the 

 'seventies of the existence of a Nilotic Negro language in Kavirondo, on the 



174. A SWAHILI (ZAXZIBAKi) TRADER IN UGANDA 



north-east coast of the Victoria Nyanza. News began to arrive of the Nandi 

 people,* and of the Rift Valley with its salt- and fresh-water lakes. All 



* The word " Nandi " first appears on the niaj) of Stanley's " Through the 

 Dark Continent" in 1878. 



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