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A NATURALIST IN MID-AFRICA, 



its euphony, in which the real name Runsororo is 

 conspicuously lacking. Most of the natives simply 

 speak of it as " Kiriba," a word which I take to 

 mean a high peak, and which seems to me of 

 Wahima origin. This name is also given to any 

 high peak far away to the south in Urundi. 



It is unpleasant to criticise Mr. Stanley's works, 

 but when I rind loose and unaccredited statements 



Fig. 30.—The Bark Cloth Fig. 



of his quoted as classics against me, and have to 

 light hard with my own mapmaker to insist on 

 what does not exist being not included in my own 

 map because Mr. Stanley states that it ought to be 

 there, then it is necessary to make a stand. 



Mount Gordon Bennett, Mackinnon Peak, and 

 Mount Lawson are not mountains, but quite insig- 

 nificant hills, if they have any existence at all. 



