AND TO THE GIBBEE. ;J79 



miles from Angolahlah, and going on horseback, 

 Karissa said that lie could drink of the waters of that 

 river before the evening of the second day. The 

 Gallas of Limmoo he had heard of, but never 

 visited, so that when I mentioned to him the name 

 of Ouare, the Galla informant of M. Jomard, and 

 also Kilho, who is represented as being chief of 

 that country, he could give me no information 

 respecting them. The river Abiah he knew was 

 the same as the Gibbee, and said that it went 

 through the Shankalli country to Sennaar. 



Beyond the Abiah I was now told, a nation of 

 white people like ourselves existed, but who were 

 cannibals, and had all their utensils made of iron. 

 That they boiled and eat all intruders into their 

 country. He stated positively that he had himself 

 seen a woman of this people, who had been brought 

 to Enarea, and who had confirmed all the state- 

 ments he was now making to me. As I believe 

 myself that the Bahr ul Abiad will be found to 

 have its earlier sources in an isolated table land 

 like Abyssinia, but of much greater elevation, I 

 began to suspect that these white people must be 

 the inhabitants of the country surrounding the 

 distant sources of this mysterious river, and that as 

 the Assabi derived its name from flowing through 

 a country of red people, that the White Nile, 

 in like manner had been so designated from the 

 circumstance of its table land being inhabited by 

 a white race, and as a branch of that river 



