the Eastern Side of the Basin of the Nile. 247 
Gulf is the bight in which Zanzibar, the ancient Menuthias, 
is situate: the Cannibal negroes are the Wadoe, who inhabit 
the coast between Zanzibar and the snowy mountains, in the 
very spot attributed to them by Ptolemy, and whose “ name 
is terrible even in African ears:”* Kenia, Kilimandjaro, and 
Doengo Engai, are some of the snowy Mountains of the 
Moon: the lakes are Nyanza and Tanganyika ; and the country 
whose name gives the key to the whole is U-Nyamwezi, the pre- 
‘sent representative of the earlier “‘ Monomoezi,” which name 
Dr Krapf translates ‘ Possession of the Moon,” and Captain 
Burton “ Land of the Moon ;” both versions being probably 
erroneous, as I shall endeavour to prove in the sequel, though 
the principal portion of that name, ‘“ Mwezi,” does literally 
signify “the Moon,” as has already been explained. 
It might be objected that the positions and relative bear- 
ings of these several points are not correctly given by Ptolemy. 
Such an objection would be more specious than real. That 
geographer does not profess to do more than record the results 
of information collected from various independent sources, 
not always agreeing with one another, and none of them pre- 
tending to perfect accuracy. He does nothing more, in fact, 
than is done by modern geographers and chartographers, who 
describe countries and construct maps of them “from the 
latest and best authorities.” 
It might further be argued that Kilimandjaro and Kenia are 
not proved to be snow-capped mountains. We have, how- 
ever, the reiterated assertions of Dr Krapf and Mr Rebmann, 
two educated natives of Germany, that they saw snow on 
those mountains with their own eyes; and if the persons from 
whom Ptolemy derived his information were only half as com- 
petent to give evidence on the subject as those two mission- 
aries, that geographer could not be blamed for having believed 
in the existence of snow on the Mountains of the Moon, and 
having accordingly recorded it as a fact for the information of 
his own and future ages, even should it eventually turn out, 
as Dr Livingstone suggests, that “the whiteness of those 
mountains” is “nothing more than white quartz rocks and 
crystalline dolomitic limestones glittering under a tropical 
* See “Journ. Royal Geogr. Soc.,” vol. xxix. p. 99. 
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