omputed by Captain George.
This applies also to the position of Ujiji; at any rate, the practical
differences are so trifling that it would require a microscope to detect
them on the map.]
[Footnote 8: The Jub is the largest river known to the Zanzibar Arabs.
It debouches on the east coast north of Zanzibar, close under the
equator.]
[Footnote 9: The two first gold watches were given away at Zanzibar.]
[Footnote 10: If one asked the name of a tree, and it happened to be the
kind from which this cloth was made, the answer would be "mbugu." If,
again, the question was as to the bark, the same answer; and the same if
one saw the shirt, and asked what it was. Hence I could not determine
whether the word had been originally the name of the tree, of its bark,
or of the article made from the bark, though I am inclined to think it
is the bark, as there are many varieties of these trees, which, being
besides being called mbugu, had their own particular names.]
[Footnote 11: Rumanika's present.--One block-tin box, one Raglan coat,
five yards scarlet broadcloth, two coils copper wire, a hundred large
blue egg-beads, five bundles best variegated beads, three bundles minute
beads--pink, blue, and white.]
[Footnote 12: Nnanaji's present.--One deole or gold-embroidered silk,
two coils copper wire, fifty large blue egg-beads, five bundles best
variegated beads, three bundles minute beads--pink, blue and white.]
[Footnote 13: Since named by Dr P. L. Sclater "Tragelaphus Spekii."
These nzoe have been drawn by Mr Wolf, from specimens brought home by
myself.]
[Footnote 14: Round arm, 1 ft. 11 in.; chest, 4 ft. 4 in.; thigh, 2 ft.
7 in.; calf, 1 ft. 8 in.; height, 5 ft. 8 in.]
[Footnote 15: I.e. Dead Locust Lake,--Luta, dead--Nzige, locust.]
[Footnote 16: In 'Blackwood's Magazine' for August 1859.]
[Footnote 17: See p. 211.]
[Footnote 18: 1 block-tin box, 4 rich silk cloths, 1 rifle
(Whitworth's), 1 gold chronometer, 1 revolver pistol, 3 rifled carbines,
3 sword-bayonets, 1 box ammunition, 1 box bullets, 1 box gun-caps, 1
telescope, 1 iron chair, 10 bundles best beads, 1 set of table-knives,
spoons, and forks.]
[Footnote 19: The straight road down the Nile through Unyoro no one
dares allude to at this time, as the two kings were always fighting.]
[Footnote 20: Some say a group of forty islands compose Sese.]
[Footnote 21: Named by Dr P. L. Sclater, Cosmetornis Spekii. The seventh
pen feathers are double the le
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