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gani river. Zanzibar city is Unguja (pronounced 

 Ungudya, not Anggouya) . The word appears in 

 an ancient settlement on the eastern coast of the 

 island, and the place is still called Unguja Mku, 

 Old Unguja. Some still call it Lunguja, appa- 

 rently an older form. We find c Lendgouya' 

 in the Commercial Traveller Yakut (early 

 thirteenth century) ; but 6 Bandgouia ' (Abd el 

 Eashid bin Salih el Bakui, a.d. 1403) is clearly 

 a corruption. 



Finally, Zanzibar has been identified by pa- 

 keogeographers with the Ptolemean MevouSiag or 

 MevouQso-lag (iv. 9), and with the MsvouQtas of the 

 Periplus (Geog. Grseci Minores of B,. Muller, 

 Paris, 1855), in some copies of which Menouthe- 

 sias also occurs. Its rivals, however, for this 

 honour are Pemba, Mafiyah (the Monfia of our 

 maps) and Bukini, the northern and north- 

 western parts of Malagash or Madagascar. 1 

 Ptolemy, it may be observed, places the two im- 

 portant sites, Menouthias and Prasum (or Pras- 

 sum) in a separate chapter (iv. 9), whereas his 

 principal list of stations is in Book iv. chapter 7. 

 He lays down the site of Menouthias in S. lat. 



1 ' What Booken (Bukini) means I do not know.' "Wake 

 on the Madecasses. Journal, Anthrop. Soc. No. 28, xxxi., Dr 

 Krapf (Kisuaheli Grammar, p. 106) uses Bukini as Madagascar 

 generally. 



