234 Dr Beke on the Sources of the Nile 



shows indisputably, that both the Livtima and the Ozi have 

 their sources at the eastern edge of the table-land ; and he 

 adduces cogent reasons for believing that the case must be 

 the same with the Luf idji, and that Khamis was merely la- 

 bouring under a misconception common among native Afri- 

 cans, when he said that it issues from the lake. 



I have myself collected information from various sources, 

 into the particulars of which it is beside the present question 

 to enter, showing that all the principal rivers of the east coast 

 of Africa which flow towards the Indian Ocean, namely, the 

 Hawdsh ; the "Wabbi, Doho, or Haines's River ; the Wabbi- 

 Giweyna, Gowin, or Juba River ; the Ozi, Pokomozi, or Mai'o ; 

 the Sabaki, the Luf idji, and the Livuma (Rovooma), all com- 

 municate either with the Nile or with N'yassi ; such being 

 the enunciation, in the native phraseology, of the fact, that 

 the several sources of these rivers are at the water-parting 

 between their basins and those of that river and lake ; the 

 contiguity of the respective sources being, according to the 

 native mode of thinking, equivalent to an actualVater-commu- 

 nication between the streams themselves. Respecting these 

 rivers, it is remarked by Lieutenant Hardy, who examined 

 the entire coast in 1811,* that " it is confidently reported 

 they all take their rise among the mountains in Abessinia ;" 

 by which expression, as I have had occasion to explain in an- 

 other place, t is meant, not merely the " Abessinia" of Euro- 

 peans, but the entire elevated land of Eastei'n Africa, which 

 is known to the Arabs by the name of Habesh, and to the 

 people of Sennir by that of Makadah. 



There is a remarkable circumstance connected with one of 

 these rivers, namely the Ozi, which calls for special obser- 

 vation. By Khamis bin Othmdn, this river, not less than 

 the Luf idji and Livuma, was said to issue from N'yassi, or 

 the great lake. On the other hand, the Rev. Dr Krapf, 

 who has for several years past been zealously pursuing his 

 missionary labours in the vicinity of Monbisa (Mombis), in 

 about 4i° S. latitude, lately sent home information that " it is 



* Transactions of Bombay Geogr. Soc, 1841-44, p. 59. 

 t Journ. Roy. Geogr. Soc, vol. xvii., p. 2, note. 



