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informutioii reached tlie iriissioiiiiries cstahlislK^d at .Moinlja^a during f he 

 'seventies of the existence of a Nilotic Negro language in Kaviroiido. on th(^ 



174. A SWAHILl (ZANZlliAKl) TKAUER IX UliANUA 



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 map of Stanley's "Through the 

 Dark Continent" in 1878. 



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