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of the Moon : the northern part is termed Ukerewe, by 

 a confusion with the Nyanza Lake and the southern 

 N'hanjd, for Nyassa, the old Maravi water near Kilwa. 

 It is not a little curious, however, that Messrs. Cooley 

 and Macqueen should both have recorded the vernacular 

 name of the northern Lake Tangenyika, so unaccount- 

 ably omitted from the 4 Mombas Mission Map.' The 

 words Tanganyenka and Tanganyenko used by Dr. 

 Livingstone, who in places appears to confound the 

 Lake with the Nyanza and the Nyassa, are palpable mis- 

 pronunciations. 



The African name for the central lake is Tanganyika, 

 signifying an anastomosis, or a meeting place (sc. of 

 waters,) from ku tanganyika, the popular word, to join, 

 or meet together : the initial t being changed to ch — 

 ku changanyika for ku tanganyika — in the lingua Franca 

 of Zanzibar doubtless gave rise to Mr. Cooley's u Zan- 

 ganyika." The word Tanganyika is universally used 

 by the Wajiji and other tribes near and upon the Lake. 

 The Arabs and African strangers, when speaking loosely 

 of it, call it indifferently the Bahari or Sea, the Ziwa or 

 Pond, and even the Mtoni or River. The " Sea of 

 Ujiji" would, after the fashion of Easterns, be limited 

 to the waters in the neighbourhood of that principal 

 depot. 



The Tanganyika occupies the centre of the length of 

 the African continent, which extends from 32° N. to 

 33° S. latitude, and it lies on the western extremity of 

 the eastern third of the breadth. Its general direction 

 is parallel to the inner African line of volcanic action 

 drawn from Gondar southwards through the regions 

 about Kilima-ngao (Kilimanjaro) to Mount Njesa, the 

 eastern wall of the Nyassa Lake. The general forma- 

 tion suggests, as in the case of the Dead Sea, the idea 

 of a volcano of depression — not, like the Nyanza or 



