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from 10 N. to 5 S. latitude. The sources of the White Nile 

 are situated in the Mono-Moezi country, probably in &J- S., 

 not far from where the river Sabaki, on the eastern side 

 of the Mountains of the Moon, falls into the Indian Ocean 

 near Melindeh, north of Mombaza. Last autumn (Ib47) 

 the two Abyssinian missionaries Eebmann and Krapf were 

 still on the coast of Mombaza. They have established in 

 the vicinity, among the Wakainba tribe^ a missionary station 

 called Eabbay Empie, which promises to be very useful 

 also for geographical discovery. Families belonging to the 

 Wakamba tribe have advanced to the west five or six 

 hundred miles into the interior of the country, as far as 

 the upper course of the river Lusidji, the great lake Nyassi 

 or Zambeze (5 S. lat.?), and the sources of the Nile 

 which are not far distant. An expedition to these sources, 

 which Herr Priedrich Bialloblotzky, of Hanover, is pre- 

 paring to undertake, (by the advice of Beke), is to set out 

 from Mombaza. The Nile coming from the west referred 

 to by the ancients is probably the Bahr-el-Ghazal, or Keilah, 

 which falls into the Nile in 9 N. lat., above the mouth 

 of the Godjeb or Sobat." 



Kussegger's scientific expedition, which by Mehemet 

 Ali's desire was sent to the gold-washings of Fazokl on 

 the Blue (Green) Nile, Bahr-el-Azrek, in 1837 and 

 1838, had made the existence of the " Mountains of the 

 Moon" appear very doubtful. The Blue Nile, the Astapus 

 of Ptolemy, issuing from the lake of Coloe (now called 

 lake Tzana) winds from amongst the colossal Abyssinian 

 mountains; but towards the south-west an extensive low 



