in the Mountains of the Moon. 239 



Arabic name of Djebel el Kamar (Ganiar) — i. e. " tlie Moun- 

 tains of the Moon^' — from the circumstance of that river's 

 rising between these two hills m Garni u. A second journey, 

 reported by the same traveller to have been made by him to 

 En4rea in 1845, has, however, led to widely different conclu- 

 sions. The Godjeb has been summarily deprived of the 

 honour of being the head of the Nile, and the Bora, an in- 

 significant tributary of the Gibbe of Enarea, distant 80 miles 

 in longitude alone from the " mountains of Gamru;''* has 

 been made to take its place ; while the Bako, which, on that 

 traveller's former visit to Bonga, the capital of KafFa, had 

 been found by him to be a tributary of the Godjeb, and to 

 have its source within 15 miles of the place at which he then 

 was, has altogether lost its existence as a separate head 

 river, and is now become the lower coui'se of the Godjeb 

 and Gibbe, and in fact the' main stream of the Bahr el 

 Abyad.t What is most singular, in connexion with the 

 marked differences thus existing between the results of the 

 two journeys of M. d'Abbadie, is, that those of the earlier 

 and much more important one to Kaifa, which the traveller 

 said it had required several months of research on the spot 

 to arrive at, J should have been superseded by oral information 

 obtained in Enarea, a country which is not so distant as 

 Kaffa by nearly, if not quite, one hundred miles. 



But without dwelling on these matters, it is sufficient to 

 observe, that M. d'Abbadie does not pretend that his identi- 

 fication either of the Godjeb or of the Bora with the head of 

 the White River, is the result of his own personal explorations. 

 As it is most justly observed by M. Vivien de St Martin, the 

 learned Secretary of the Geogi^aphical Society of Paris, in his 

 last Annual Report,! "What M. d'Abbadie calls his discovery 

 [namely, of the Source of the Nile], is in reality only a con- 

 jecture ; and, in a matter of fact, a conjecture, even if it has 

 every probability in its favour, can never take the place of a di- 



* Nouvclks Annates dcs Voijarjas, 1845, vol. ii., p. 112. 

 t AtUnaeum of 9th and 16th Oct. 1847, Nos. 1041, 1042, pp. 1058, 1077. 

 X " 11 a fallu plusieurs mois de travail Rur les lieux memes pour ddmeler les 

 elements de co vaste bassin." — Nouv. Ann. den Voy. 1845, vol. ii., p. 115. 

 S Ilatletin, 3d Ser., vol. viii., p. 283. 



