152 Notes on the Congo River. 
Bancari of Cavazzi ; it flows from the same moun¬ 
tain as the Umbre, and Duarte Lopez (1560) causes 
it to mingle with the Zaire on the eastern borders 
of Pango, at the foot of the Sierra del Crystal. In 
certain modern maps the Bankare fork is called 
“ Lekure,” and is made to receive the “ Bambaye.” 
The Barbela again anastomoses with the Luba (?) 
or northern section of the Coango, including its 
influent, the Lubilash ; the Kasai (Kasabi) also 
unites with the Coango, and other dotted lines 
show the drainage of the Lualaba into the Kasai. 
The Portuguese, according to Vasconcello, shun¬ 
ning all fanciful derivations, were long satisfied 
to term the Congo “ Rio de Patron ” (Rio do Pa- 
drao) from the first of memorial columns built 
at its mouth. In 1816 Captain Tuckey’s expe¬ 
dition learned with Maxwell that the stream 
should be called, not Zaire, but Moienzi Enzaddi, 
the “ great river ” or the “ river which absorbs 
all other rivers.” This thoroughly corrupted name, 
which at once found its way into popular books, 
and which is repeated to the present day even by 
scientific geographers, suggested to some theorists 
“ Zadi,” the name of the Niger at Wassenah ac¬ 
cording to Sidi Hamet, as related by the American, 
James Riley, of the brig “ Commerce,” wrecked 
on August 28, 1815 : others remembered “ Zad” 
which Shaykh Yusuf (Hornemann), misleading 
Mungo Park, learned to be the Niger east of 
