Chap. XLVII. NAMES OF RIVERS. 
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given, and I was confirmed in the opinion which I had 
previously formed, that this river is not the Shari, but 
a small branch of it ; Major Denham, during the short 
stay which he made here, not being able to ascertain 
that this river, which he saw at the town of Logon, 
was not the same as that which he saw at Kiisuri, but 
only a branch of it, and the smaller one. However, 
all the names given to rivers by the various tribes of 
Negroland have no other signification than that 
general one of " water," " river," from the western 
great " Ba," of the Mandingoes by the I'sa of the 
Songhay, Eghirreu of the Imoshagh, " Mayo " of the 
Fulbe, Gulbi of the Hausa, Kwara of the Yoruba, 
Benuwe of the Batta, Komadugu of the Kaniiri, the 
eastern " Ba " of the Bagirmi, the Fittri of the 
Kiika, the Batha of the Arabs of Waday. Thus the 
name " Shari " also signifies nothing more than " the 
river," that is to say, the river of the K6toko, to 
whose language this word belongs, and the word 
" tsade," or rather " tsadhe," seems nothing but a 
different pronunciation of this same name, the original 
form of which is probably " sare " or " saghe*" 
This smaller western branch of the Shari the 
natives of Logon call " Laghame na Logone," that is 
to say, the river (" lagham") of Logon ; but higher up 
it has different names, according to the places which 
it passes by, being called by the Miisgu people in 
their own language " E're," or " Arre," a name which 
itself means nothing else but river ; while in another 
place, where I reached it on my expedition to the 
