I made a sketch of it which was published in Dr Krapf’s Travels, chap. xiii. Rabai Mpia, ‘New Rabai,’ is thus distinguished from a neighbouring settlement, Rabai Khú or Kale, ‘old Rabai.’ According to M. Guillain (i. 247), the ‘Montagnes de Rabaye’ correspond with the ‘Alkerany’ of the geographer Ibn Saíd, who says, ‘East of Melinde is Alkerany, the name of a mountain very well known to travellers. This height projects into the sea for a distance of about 100 miles in a north-east direction; at the same time it extends along the Continent in a straight line, trending south for some 50 miles. Amongst the peculiarities of this mountain is the following: the continental portion contains an iron mine, which supplies all the country of the Zenj, besides being exported, and the part under the sea contains magnetic matter which attracts iron.’ Evidently ‘Alkerany’ belongs to the geography of El Sindibad of the Sea, better known as Sindbad the Sailor. Footnote 14: The route which follows seems to agree, as far as it goes, with the Rev. Mr Wakefield’s No. 3, from Mombasah to Dhaicho. I have not changed my notes, which still appear in my diary of 1857. 1. Mombasah viâ Mkupa to Rabai: 1 full day. 2. Kitakakai in the plains of the Wakamba: 1 day. 3. Mtu ’Ndogoni (M’tu Anggoni of Capt. Guillain?): 1 day. 4. Wamamba of the Doruma: 1 day. 5. Kisima (little well), amongst high hills, with a small reservoir: 1½ day. (This appears to be the Ngurunga za Kimiri and Ngurunga za Mlala of Capt. Guillain, and the Gurungani of Mr Wakefield). 6. Dayda (Tayta, the Taveta of Capt. Guillain, which Mr Wakefield makes a corruption of a Kikwavi word, ‘Ndoveta’): 2 days (1 long and 1 short). 7. Ndi, a place infamous for thieves: 1½ day. 8. The Chágo (Zavo) or Tsavo river: 1½ day. (Captain Guillain has a village, Segao.) 9. Mtitowandei: 1½ day. 10. Kikumbulu, or country on the southern frontier of Ukamba: 1 day. 11. The Adi (Sabaki or Sabbak) river, which disembogues itself north of Melinde, unfordable after rains: 1½ day. 12. The Tiwa river in Yatá: 1 day. 13. Nzáu, the land of tobacco: 1½ day. 14. Kitui: 2½ days. Thence, to the beginning of Kikuyu, the travellers make from 4 to 8 stages. The day’s work would be 9 hours, including 2 of halt, and the distance, assuming the pace to be 2½ miles per hour, would be about 17 miles. Here, say the people, 10 marches do the work of a month on the southern lines, the reason being want of food and water, and fear of enemies. Footnote 15: