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Tinbuktu, “ where it turns off to the southward.” 
I need hardly say that this “ Zadi ” and “ Zad ” 
are evident corruptions of Bahr Shady, Shary, 
Shari, Chad, Tsad, and Chadda, the swampy lake, 
alternately sweet and brackish, which was formerly 
thrown by mistake into the Chadda River, now 
called the Binue or Binuwe, the great eastern fork 
of the Negro-land Nile : the true drainage of the 
Chadda in ancient times has lately been determined 
by the adventurous Dr. Nachtigal. Mr. Cooley 1 
applied, as was his wont, a superficial knowledge 
of Kibundo to Fiote or Congoese, and further 
corrupted Moienzi Enzaddi to Muenya (for Menha 
or Menya) Zinzadi—this Angolan “ emendation,” 
however, was not adopted. 
The natives dwelling upon the Congo banks 
have, as usual in Africa, no comprehensive generic 
term for the mighty artery of the West Coast. 
Each tribe calls it by its own name. Thus even in 
Fiote we find “ Mulango,” or “ Lango,” the water ; 
“ Nkoko,” the stream, “ Mwanza,” the river, and 
“ Mwanza Nnenne,” the great river, all used 
synonymously at the several places. The only 
proper name is Mwanza Nzadi, the River Nzadi: 
hence Zaire, Zaire, Zahir, Zaira the “ flumen 
Congo olim Zaida” (C. Barle)—all corruptions 
more or less common. 
1 “Geography of N’yassi,” note, p. 51. 
