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town s name, but how the said town could be near to 
the Ozi, fifteen days up this river, and yet be visible 
from Malinde, and so near to the Sabaki as to give 
this river its name, is to me altogether incomprehen- 
sible. Mr. Cooley supposes the Ozi and Sabaki to be 
own sisters, while the truth is there is no relation 
between them whatever. They enter the sea at a dis- 
tance of at least twenty miles from each other ; but 
following them into the interior, they lead you in di- 
rections almost at right angles with each other ; for 
while the Sabaki takes a course almost due west, the 
Ozi runs nearly north. Fifteen days, therefore, up the 
Ozi would take us to a spot far enough away from the 
Sabaki. Furthermore, how can the Sabaki and the 
Ozi be sister rivers, when they are divided from each 
other by the Tana, a river much greater than either of 
them ? If it was as Mr. Cooley says, one of them would 
have to flow across the Tana to join its mate. Khamis 
ben Othman's opinion goes for nothing against facts. 
Mr. Cooley admits that the Tsavo and Adi really do 
derive their waters, '^wholly or in part, from Kilima 
Njaro,'' but he says they ^^run into or form the Ozi." 
The latter, from what has already been said, has been 
proved to be impossible. But Mr. Cooley thinks the 
names Adi and Ozi are identical, differing only 
through that dialectical peculiarity of pronunciation 
which has made Dr. Krapf write Dana also for Tana, 
the Pokomo word for that river." Perhaps no one else 
would have discovered identity here ; but, whatever 
identity there may be in the names, I hope I have suffi- 
ciently shown that there is no identity between the 
rivers. The Sabaki, the Tana, and the Ozi are all dis- 
tinct; they have no connectionwith each other whatever. 
