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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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