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existence before appeared so problematical. And now the 

 two mighty summits, Kilima-njaro, explored by the late 

 lamented Baron von der Decken and Doenyo Ebor, reported 

 to Dr Krapf under the alias Kenia or Kirenia, and unex- 

 pectedly confirmed by fresh evidence, have obtained local 

 habitations as well as names. 



But the interest of Mr Wakefield's Routes culminates 

 in the fact that they show even to a certainty the exist- 

 ence of a lake before unknown, and they lead to the con- 

 clusion that the area of 29,900 square geographical miles, 

 assigned to the so-called Victoria Nyanza, contains at 

 least four and probably a greater number of separate 

 waters ; that it is, in fact, not a Lake, but a Lake Region. 



Mr Keith Johnston observes (p. 333), 'It is remarkable 

 that not one single name of a district, people, or place 

 (with the exception of that of the Wamasai, a general 

 name for the people of the white region west of the Lake) 1 

 given in these new routes has any such remote resemblance 

 to names reported by Speke and Burton as to warrant any 

 identification with any one of them.' The reason will 

 presently appear in the fact that we are speaking of 



well-considered remarks to the ' Routes/ observes (p. 337) that 1 the 

 Njemsi volcano in this region has a special interest, since, if the report 

 be true, it is the only one which is known to present any signs of activity 

 in the African Continent.' I cannot at present place my hand upon a 

 private note addressed to me by Mr Frank Wilson of Fernando Po, and 

 describing how the Camarones Peak was seen to be in eruption shortly 

 after my departure from the West African coast (1864). I had found 

 it in one place still smoking. 



1 The routes as well as the information given by me in the Lake 

 Regions of Central Africa, and in my forthcoming work upon Zanzibar, 

 City, Island, and Coast, prove the Wamasai to be a special tribe. M. 

 Richard Brenner (Miitheilungen, 1868, p. 175, &c, and map facing p. 

 384) shows that this fierce pastoral people has approached the coast 

 and seized the right or southern bank of the Sabaki or Melinde river. 



