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countries from the irrasji of their blackened descendants. Snay bin Amir, 

 returning to Unyaniwezi, brought back with him (nil accounts of this 

 organised and civilised Xegro kingdom to the nortli. This news spread 

 rapidly amongst the trading Arabs of the Zanzibar hinterland, and ccme to 



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

 (These two liad 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 East Africa.) If Krapf did not first mention the 

 name "Uganda," then that revelation falls to Ca})tain (afterwards Sir 

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

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



