Tlie Eiiwenzori Range. 



('■') "His (PtokMiiv's) hititudi's aiul loMf;it»dfS are cleiirly wortlilfss, pxceirt in so far as 

 flu> former represent flie broad faet that these hikes, and therefore tlie sources of tlie NiU', 

 were aetnally situated soutli of tlie equator." So Bunburt in the quoted work, Vol. II, 

 pp. 814-15. 



V") Cape Aroniata is usually identified with Cape Guar.la/iii. Henut ScnLiciiTKK {Proc. 

 of the Royal Geographical Society, 1891, p. 529), places it niucli farther south, and identifies 

 it with Mai Asirad (hit. 4' 30' N.). Ca|)e Rhaptmn is placed by Ptolemy at one and a-lialf 

 defiree from the eommereial emporium of Rhapta in the direction of the soutli. Touching its 

 identity with any of the coast lieadlamls in that part of Africa, geographers are not quite of 

 accord. Miiller places it at Ra.i Puna, Berlionx and Schlichter at Ka.t Mnmljamkii. Nor is 

 it easy to indicate the position of the eommereial emporium of Eliapla, since it did no( lie on 

 tlie coast, but somewhat inland. Still, as the Kiver Rhaptus of Ptolemy's Geography is most 

 probably identical with the Pangani, not a few geographers place Rhapta on the lower course 

 of that river. Bunbury (op. cit., p. 454), says that Rhapta stood at the head of the bay 

 opposite Zanzibar, not far from Bagamoyo. 



("■■) Geogi:, Book I, chap. 9. 



('') Admitting that Rhapta corresponded to some place i>n (lie lower course of the 

 Pangani, Ptolemy's latitude 7° S. would differ by 1° 30' from the actual, the mouth of the 

 Pangani being at 5' 30'. If we locate Rhapta with Bunbury in the neighbourhood of 

 Bagamoyo, the agreement will be almost jierfeet. In any cast', the nearly correct description 

 of the eastern seaboard is easily ex]>lained when we remember that, as we know from tin- 

 Periplns Marin Erylhraei and from tlie language of Ptolemy himself, the eoastlands north 

 of Rhapta were at that time very veil kTiowu. 



("*) See the foregoing note. 



('-') Str.\BO, Oeogr., Book XVII, cliap. 1,1; Bkroer, Die gengraphixcheii Fragmevte dex 

 Ji^ratoit/ieaei, Vol. I, p. 302 sq. 



P) Stanley, /» Darkest Africa, Vol. II, ]i. 270. 



(-') Proceedings of tlie Itayal Geograjiliieal Society, 1891, p. 550. 



(~) H. Schlichter ni Proceedings ofllie Royal Geographical Society, 1891, p. 534. 



P) Bunbury, History of Ancient Geography, Vol. II. 



(-■*) We know that the first notions regarding these gigantic momitains of East Africa 

 <late from the travels of the missionaries Krapf and Rebmann (1848-1851). 



('^) The Monies Alrapei of European Sarmatia may serve as an instance. 



(-") Bunbury argues much to the same effect. '" The precision with which he determines 

 the position and limits of a range of mountains, cttncerning which be had no real knowledge, 

 and which had no existence in faet, finds a jiandlel in that of thi- Ifyiierboreau Momitains in 

 European Sarmatia ; and there seems no doubt that the process by which Ptolemy arrived at 

 his eonelusion was much the same in both cases. In this instance he had learned the existence 

 of two lakes, which lie believed to be the sources of the Nile ; he had learnt also the existence 

 of a range of mountains, «0)«e o/" n'hicli n-ere so lofty as to be cohered with .««oi», though 

 situated under the equator; he then at once assumed that the lakes were fed by the snows of 

 the mountains, and having no real idea of the position of these last, drew them on his map in 

 a straight line, to the south of the lakes, extending far enough to the east and west, to supply, 

 as he conceived, the necessary drainage." See History of Ancient Oeograjihy, Vol. II, 

 p. 6li'. It is needless to observe that the learned historian does not admit with Cooley the 



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