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Title: Zanzibar: city, island, and coast
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Burton, Richard Francis, Sir, 1821-1890
Subjects: Ethnology
Publisher: London, Tinsley brothers
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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T/iTYUSA APPENDIX. 497 ence of snowy feeders. Some 3rears ago a Swiss travellerdrew my attention to the fact that glacier-water would ex-plain the term White river as opposed to Blue river.The quantity of melted snow or glacier-water which findsits way to the true Xile may be comparatively inconsider-able, but that little may perhaps modify the colourlesscomplexion of rain-water when its suspended matter hasbeen deposited, and distinguish it from the pure azure ofa stream issuing from a Lake Geneva. In 1857 CaptainSpeke, an experienced Himalayan, easily detected, whendrinking from the Pangar-ni or Ptiifu river, the roughflavour of snow water. Hore important, however, than Baringo is the newLake announced to us by Mr Wakefields African Pandit,Sadi bin Ahedi. The latter ignoring Xyanza, calls it Gy-anja, possibly a dialectic variety, and therefore a differenceneither to be dwelt upon too much nor wholly to be neg-lected. Of greater value is the name Bahari ya Pili, orSecond Sea, not cal

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