Baikie’s Niger Expedition. 89 
The Wanyamuezi tribe has from time immemorial been addicted 
to journeying, and at all periods has constantly visited the east- 
ern coast of Africa. It would not be beyond legitimate and 
logical supposition, to imagine that these hills, lying beyond 
their Moon Country, should have given rise to the term Moun- 
tains of the Moon, and from misunderstanding their relative po- 
sition with the snowy Koenia and Kilimanjaro, should have been 
the means of misguiding all ancient inquirers about that myste- 
rious mountain. 
Map) is the great reservoir of the Nile, and that its waters indu- 
bitably extend northwards from the position visited by me on 
its southern extremity to 84° north latitude, lying across the 
€quator, and washes out that supposed line of mountains, called 
the Mountains of the Moon, which stands so conspicuously in 
all our atlases,” * 
have received from this important expedition is contained in the 
“The unfortunate shipwreck of the Pleiad on the rocks near 
Rabba, and the check ote to the expedition under Dr. W. B. 
aati Ts May,” BN., 
Who has returned to England, that less than twenty miles above 
