[126] The Ruzi River, which rises to the west of Lake Rudolf, under the fourth degree of north latitude, was considered by the late Captain Wellby to be the southernmost source of the Sobat, but this supposition has not been verified. The Ruzi or the two Ruzis probably join the three big streams--the Oguelokur, Tu, and Kos--which enter the Giraffe River. [127] This name means “the terrible,” from the violence with which it sweeps down a winding chasm from an altitude of 7,000 feet in Abyssinia to 2,500 feet in the Nubian plains. [128] Who transmitted the rumour to Greek travellers and merchants visiting the coasts of the Red Sea and East Africa. These again handed on the information to Greek and Roman geographers. [129] A corruption of Runsororo. [130] Wosho Mountain, approximately sixteen thousand feet. [131] Snow may perhaps occasionally lie for a few days on the highest points of the volcanic Mfumbiro peaks (Sabinzi and Karisimbi), which are over thirteen thousand feet and lie almost within the limits of the Nile basin, to the south of Lake Albert Edward; and there may be a little permanent snow perhaps on the peaks over eleven thousand feet in height on the southeast of Basutoland in South Africa. [132] A little less perhaps than Dr. A. Bludan’s estimate. INDEX Aahmes, 11 Abbadie, Antoine Thomson d’, 111, 279, 280, 281, 319 Abbadie, Arnaud d’, 279, 319 Ablaing, Baron d’, 193 Abyssinia, 3, 298 _et seq._; history of, 30 _et seq._, 46 _et seq._, 61, 112, 277 _et seq._; geography of, 30, 57, 70, 87, 111, 179, 182, 203, 204, 279 _et seq._; people of, 31 _et seq._, 61, 82 _et seq._, (raw-meat eating) 81–85, (feasts) 82–85; Christianity of, 48, 51, 58; Emperor of, 49, 51, 57, 66, 77, 182, 278 _et seq._; name of, 60, 61; missionaries in, 112, 182, 278; likeness to Bahima, 144; Mother of the Nile, 179; mountains, 297, 312 Acacia (gum) trees, 182, 205, 207, 209, 218, 220, 294 Acholi (Shuli), people, 165, 184, 253, 274, 296 Adel (Somaliland), 48 Aden, 115, 127, 276 Adua, 33 Adulis, 27, 33 Afar, 4, 30 Africa, East, 22, 44, 48, 133, 246 Africa, Negro, 21 Africa, North, 15, 38, 199 Africa, South, 134, 147 Africa, West, 148, 217, 219, 242, 245 African Association, 86, 90 African wild flowers, flora, 133, 177, 204, 205, 218, 257, 258 Agoro Mountains, 272 Ais, Al, 94, 99 Akka pygmies, 110, 216 Akobo River, 287, 290 Albania, Albanians, 94 Albert Edward, Lake, 171, 227, 260, 262, 269, 270, 304 Albert Nyanza, 26, 71, 97, 129, 164, 170, 173, 185 _et seq._, 231 _et seq._, 250, 260 _et seq._, 304 Alexander the Great, 12, 13, 16, 90 Alexandra Nyanza, 228, 266 Alexandria, 16, 22, 23, 66, 80, 95 Algarve (southern province of Portugal), 46 Algiers, Algeria, 76 Aloes, 122, 204, 218 Alvarez, Francisco, 47, 69, 319 Ambach, or Ambady, 244 Ambatch (_Herminiera_), 209, 210, 294