CHAPTER III. 



HOW THE NILE QUESTION STOOD IN THE YEAR 

 OE GRACE 1856. 



'Avrrj fj.ev ijhe ~rjg Trtpippvrov yQovoq. 



This is the finial of th' encircling earth. 



Soph. Phil. 



In this chapter I propose briefly to place 

 before the reader the various shifting^ of opinion 

 touching the Nile Sources, and especially to 

 show what had been done for Zanzibar and her 

 coast by the theoretical and practical men of 

 Europe between a.d. 1825 and the time of our 

 landing on the Sawahil, or East African shores. 



The details given to Marinus of Tyre by the 

 Arabian merchants, and their verification by the 

 obscure Diogenes, together with the notices of 

 the African lakes on the lower part of the Upper 

 Nile, brought home about a.d. 60 by Nero's 

 exploring Centurions, were never wholly for- 



