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GREEK DERIVATIONS. 



south of the Tanganyika some 350 miles square, 

 dotted with lakes, and traversed on the eastern 

 side by the River Chambeze, which was first 

 mentioned by Dr de Lacerda, and which has 

 hitherto been confounded with the Zambeze. 

 The Greek term ' Mountain of the Moon ' may, 

 I have already suggested, be derived from 

 ' Unyamwezi,' an empire whose position between 

 the Tanganyika and the Nyanza group is laid down 

 in the map of Duarte Lopez (a. d. 1578 — 1587). 

 The name of this extensive region is still con- 

 tracted upon the coast to Mwezi, meaning the 

 Moon, and thus we might translate Ptolemy, 

 Mountain of Unyamwezi. Similarly, the an- 

 cients derived the Erythrean Sea from the Sea 

 of Edom and of Ilirayar, both signifying Red : 

 Diascorias was a corruption of Dwipa Sokotra, 

 and, to quote no more, Dr Beke has shown how 

 the Ptolemeian labadiou (Java-dwipa) became 

 Barley Island without growing barley.^ 



Finally, if we reject Unyamwezi and Mux- 

 inga as the original Lunar Mountains, we must 

 seek the latter with Dr Beke in the icy peaks 

 of the jEthiopic Olympus, prolonged to the 

 Highlands of Karagwah. 



A longer delay at Uvira than we had in 



' The Sources of the Nile (p. 83). London : Madden, 18G0. 



