the Eastern Side of the Basin of the Nile. 243 
parallel of south latitude, on a line running generally from 
N.N.E. to 8.S.W. between the 40th and 35th meridians. In 
about 2° north latitude and 39° east longitude, is what appears 
to be a lofty meridional chain, of which the white summits 
were seen in 1849 by Captain Short, the commander of one 
of the Imam of Muskat’s vessels:* between the equator and 4° 
south latitude the missionaries Krapf and Rebmann have dis- 
covered the snow-capped mountains Kenia, Kilimandjaro, and 
Doengo Engai; and lastly, Captains Burton and Speke have 
’ crossed in 6° 40’ south latitude a meridional mountain range, 
at a distance of about 120 miles from the coast, which I cannot 
but regard as the continuation of that crossed by myself in 
the 16th and 9th parallels of north latitude; the mountains 
seen by Captain Short and the missionaries forming interven- 
ing portions of the same chain. 
In thus connecting Kilimandjaro with the mountain range 
of Eastern Africa, I may seem opposed to Mr Rebmann, who 
states that Kilimandjaro forms no portion of a connected 
mountain system, but is “‘ one whole and completely isolated 
mass of mountains” rising from the midst of level ground, 
or rather that “the land sinks to where Kilimandjaro, in 
majestic simplicity, rears his white head to heaven; while to 
the west of it (says Mr Rebmann) I saw, to my astonishment, 
again this same plain not more elevated than on the eastern 
side, stretching away like the smooth surface of the sea,’’t 
But in the first place, without questioning the evidence of 
a credible eye-witness, I would nevertheless suggest that there 
is not so great a discrepancy between my opinion and Mr 
Rebmann’s statement as may at first sight appear. When in 
the year 1839 Mr Rebmann’s colleagues, Isenberg and Krapf, 
traversed the deserts between Tadjurrah and Shoa, on their 
way to the latter country, they saw before them to the north- 
west what they called “the Baadu and Aialu Mountains,” 
the latter of considerable height; and to the south, ‘the 
Gebel Achmar, or the Galla Mountains ;” and they described 
the land between themselves and those mountains as “an 
* See “ Atheneum” of 27th August 1853 (No. 1348), p. 1015. 
t Church Missionary Intelligencer, vol. vii. p. 44. 
t bid. p. 45. 
