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most delightful "recognition took place in my 

 mind of an old European guest called mow. 

 All the strange stories we had so often heard 

 about the gold and silver mountain Kilima dja 

 aro, in Jagga, supposed to be inaccessible on 

 account of evil spirits, which had killed a great 

 many of those who had attempted to ascend it, 

 were now 'at once rendered intelligible to me, 

 as, of course, the extreme cold, to which the 

 poor natives are perfect strangers, would soon 

 chill and kill the half-naked visitors." 



Further on this gentleman, Mr. Rebmann, 

 writes, " May 12, at about five o'clock, P.M., 

 we had to ford another river, called Gona, which 

 was considerably larger than the Loomi, its 

 breadth being from thirty to forty feet, and its 

 depth three feet, with a most rapid stream. 

 Its water was cold enough to prove its source, 

 which evidently is nothing else than the eternal 

 snow of the Kilima dja aro." Mr. Rebmann 

 adds to these remarks some particulars respect- 

 ing a large exploring party sent by the late 

 king of the country to " examine into the 

 nature of that strange white guest in the neigh- 

 bouring mountain, when only one man was 

 spared, though with his hands and feet destroyed 

 by excessive cold, to tell his despotic sovereign 

 the sad tidings of all his companions having 

 perished in the expedition." 



