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river, off tlie N.W. end of Zanzibar Island, is next ; it is 

 in about lat. 5° 45' S. Leefeege ^ is another large river 

 opposite Moonfia Island ; and tbere is also a considerable 

 stream off the port of Quiloa or Keelwa.^ Along this 

 extent of coast are many minor streams, but not one seems 

 to possess advantages as places of mercantile resort, or the 

 Arabs would, no doubt, ere this have benefited by any 

 trade they held out. The tides flow up the larger streams 

 one day's journey from their mouths, and it is confidently 

 reported they all take their rise among the mountains in 

 Abyssinia. 



Five or six coss, or about one day's journey at the 

 back of the towns of Magadosho, Marca, and Brava, is 

 situated a small stream called the Doho ; ^ it does not join 

 the Govinda, being lost among some hills before it reaches 

 so far south. It appears to me to be (from the accounts of 

 the reporter, an intelligent Soomallie) a branch of the 

 Zeebee,* which he calls the Dawaha, where the Doha 

 joins. The other, and principal branch, he says, runs 

 through Africa, and disembogues on the coast of Adel, 

 near Burburreea.^ 



The town of Gunnanee, on the right bank of the 

 Govinda, is about four weeks' journey from Brava ; its in- 

 habitants are Soomallies, and it is composed of about 300 

 huts. Surat cloths are taken to it from the coast, and ex- 



* The Kufigi, Lufigi, or Lufiji. 



^ A popular error. The nearest river south of Kihva would be the 

 Lindi, a little known streaman S. lat. 10°. 



^ This is the Nile of Magadoxo, which he has ignored. 



* Webbe in Somali means any stream. 



5 The well-known settlement Berberah. The intelligent Somali 

 evidently believed that the Hawash river and the Nile of Magadoxo 

 are of the same origin. 



