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looking to the Imiidred impedimenta which ap- 

 pertain to African exploration. 



Yet I was possessed by a nervous impatience 

 to be up and doing. During the year of grace 

 1867 it was proposed to penetrate into the Eastern 

 and Central Regions from all directions. The 

 Escayrac de Lauture enterprise has been already 

 mentioned. Zanzibar also expected an American 

 Expedition. A Major Cotheal, of New York, 

 had visited the coast in his own vessel, with the 

 view of pushing into the interior. Like his 

 many predecessors — Captain Smee for instance 

 — he failed to find the debouchure of the Denok, 

 Yumbo, Gob, Gob-Aven, Juba, "Webbe Ganana, 

 Govind, Dos Fuegos or Rogues^ River, which 

 forms the true northern limit of continental 

 Zanzibar, dividing inland the Galla from the 

 Somal, and which the hydrographers have placed 



^ Denok is the Galla name of the stream, probably from 

 Danesha, a townlet or encampment on the right bank of the 

 stream, some three miles from the sea. Vumbo is the Kisa- 

 wahili term. The Somal call it Gob, 'the junction' (hence 

 the Juba of the Arabs, who cannot pronounce the letter G), 

 and Gob-wen, ' the great junction,' a name also given to the 

 settlement Danesha : hence the Hinduized form Govind. 

 AVebbe (river) Ganana (bifurcation) is derived from a village 

 high up the stream. The Portuguese called it Eio dos Fuegos 

 from the number of fires, probably of fishermen : the English, 

 ' Rogues Eiver,' a term which might be applied to all the 

 streams on this coast. 



