M. REBMANN. 



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returned home, and by M. Deimler who retired 

 to Bombay. M. Rebmann after visiting Kadiaro 

 (Oct. 14, 1847) made in May 11, 1843 the first of 

 three important journeys into the 6 Jagga ' high- 

 lands, and discovered, or rather rediscovered, the 

 much vexed Kilima-njaro. The existence of this 

 mountain bearing eternal snows in eastern inter- 

 tropical Africa is thus alluded to in the Suma de 

 Geographia of Fernandez de Enciso (1530) : e West 

 of this port (Monibasah) stands the Mount Olym- 

 pus of Ethiopia, which is exceedingly high, and 

 beyond it are the " Mountains of the Moon," in 

 which are the sources of the Nile.' The discovery 

 was confirmed by Dr Krapf, who after visiting 

 (also in 1848) Euga, the capital of Usunibara, 

 made two journeys (in 1849 and 1851) into 

 Ukambani. During the first he confirmed the 

 position of Kilima-njaro, and he sighted an- 

 other snowy peak, Kenia, Kegnia, or Kirenia. 



The assertions of the missionaries were vari- 

 ously received. M. Vaux was thereby enabled 

 to explain a statement in the Metereologica of 

 Aristotle, where the first or main stream of the 

 Nile is supposed to flow out of the mountain 

 called Silver. Dr Beke accepted the meridional 

 snowy range, and here placed his Mountains of 

 the Moon, a hypothesis first advanced in 184G. 



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