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of the Moon" (fy/ o-eX^vata), was that originally adopted by 

 the Arabian writers. He remarks that in the Moschtarek 

 of Yakut, and in Ibn-Said, the mountains are written al- 

 Komr, and that Yakut writes in the same way the name of 

 the island of Zendj (Zanguebar) . The Abyssinian traveller 

 Beke, in his learned critical memoir on the Nile and its 

 tributaries (Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of 

 London, vol. xvii. 1847, p. 74-76), seeks to prove that 

 Ptolemy had merely formed his yeXrivrje gpoc from a 

 native name, for which he was indebted to intelligence 

 received through the medium of the extensive commercial 

 intercourse which prevailed. He says, "Ptolemy knew 

 that the Nile rises in the mountainous country of Moezi ; 

 and in the languages which extend over a great portion of 

 South Africa (for example, in the languages of Congo, 

 Monjou, and Mozambique), the word Moezi signifies the 

 moon. A great south-western country was called Mono- 

 Muezi, or Mani-Moezi, i. e. the land of the king of Moezi 

 (of the king of the Moon country), for in the same family 

 of languages in which Moezi or Muezi signifies the Moon, 

 Mono or Mani signifies a king. Alvarez, in the Yiaggio 

 nella Ethiopia (Eamusio, vol. i., p. 249,) speaks of the 

 ' regno di Manicongo/ the kingdom of the king of Congo/' 

 Beke's opponent, Ayrton, seeks the origin of the White Nile 

 (Bahr el Abiad), not as do Arnaud, Werne, and Beke, 

 near the equator, or even south of it (and in 29 E. long. 

 from Paris, or 81 22' from Greenwich), but with Antoine 

 d'Abbadie far to the north-east, in the Godjeb and Gibbe 

 of Eiieara (Iniara) ; therefore in the high mountains of 



