162 Notes 071 the CoTigo River . 
form, makes the Rio de Padron drain the western 
face of the Montes Lunae. Diogo Ribera, chief 
pilot of the Indies under Charles V. (Seville, 1529) 
further corrects the shape of the continent, and 
places the R. do Padrao north, and the Rio dos 
Boms Sinhaes (Zambeze) south of the Montes 
Lunae. Mercator and Henry Hondt (1623) make 
the Zaire Lacus the northern part of the Zembre 
Lacus. John Senex ( circ . 1712) shows the “ R. 
Coango,” the later Quango, believed to be the great 
south-western fork of the Congo. It is not a little 
peculiar that the last of the classics, Claudius 
Claudianus, an Alexandrian Christian withal, de¬ 
scribes the Gir, or Girrhaeus, with peculiarly 
Congoese features. In “ De laud. Stilicho.” 
(lib. i. 252) we have— 
“ Gir, notissimus amnis 
^Ethiopum, simili mentitus gurgite Nilum.” 
And again (“ Eidyll. in Nilum,” 20) : 
“ Hunc bibit infrenis Garamas, domitorque ferarum 
Girrhaeus, qui vasta colit sub rupibus antra, 
Qui ramos ebeni, qui dentes vellit eburnos.” 
Here we find a Wady or torrent discharging 
into the Mediterranean, made equal to “ Egypt’s 
heaven-descended stream ; ” caused to flow under 
great rocks, as the Niger was long believed to 
pass underground to the Nile, of which it was a 
western branch ; and said to supply ebony, which 
is the characteristic not even of the Niger regions, 
