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important. Among the Dinkas and the Chulucks 

 the "White Nile is called Kyr, and among the Barrys 

 the Churifiry. Father Knoblecher states that when 

 going up the river beyond Gondokoro he noticed 

 upon the left bank at 4 9' a granite mountain 

 500 feet high, which the natives call Logouai. While 

 he was going up this mountain he felt a sharp shock 

 of earthquake. The negroes who accompanied him, 

 throwing themselves upon their faces to the ground, 

 were very much terrified, and exclaimed that the 

 spirits of the dead were coming back Father 

 Knoblecher having asked them what they meant by 

 these spirits, they told him that there had formerly 

 been a great battle in the neighbourhood, that the 

 dead had been buried at the foot of the mountain, 

 and that ever since their souls made occasional efforts 

 to escape. The missionary took the opportunity, 

 while combating their prejudices, to explain to them 

 that the notions of the immortality of the soul, which 

 they asserted were unknown to them, in reality 

 came natural to them, and that it would never occur 

 to them that the spirit of an ox or an ass could 

 survive. 



" i A few lights to the south of Mount Logouat, on 

 the right bank of the river, is a stream which is 

 navigable for three days' journey, and which appears 

 to have its source at the foot of a lofty mountain 

 called Lologouchi. Further on, eight leagues from 

 Logouat, commence the rapids, which are studded 



