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Title: Africa
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Johnston, Alexander Keith, 1804-1871 Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912
Subjects: Africa -- Description and travel Africa -- Social life and customs
Publisher: London : Edward Stanford
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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Lower Congo, between the Wyanzi and Nkunda peoples ;4° S. lat., 18° E. long. Reported by Stanley as S. of the Watwa or Dwarf region; 2° S. lat, 24° E. Ion-Right bank of Lualaba-Congo at its junction with the Mangala ; 1° to 2° N. lat., 21° E. long.Probably a tribe of the Bateke nation, which see. On the Lualaba, below Nyangwe. Right bank of Lualaba-Congo, be-tween the Warn an gal a and Ukere ;22° E. long., 2° N. lat. Very powerful, and probably Negroes. On the Lower Rumami, near its junction with the Lualaba; 1°S. lat., 25° to 26° E. long. A race of dwarfs reported by Stanley under the equator, and 23° to 25°E. long., as far E. as the junction of the Rumami and Lualaba. Op-posite them is the cannibal region. A crafty and cowardly fishing race on both banks of Lualaba, near Nyangwe, where this river is called the Ruarowa. The tribal name is pronounced Wainya, and by the Arabs they are called Wagenya. At junction of the Kwango or Nkutu with the Congo; 18° to19° E. long., 3° S. lat.
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557 II. NOTES ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF RAIN IN AFRICA. By Keith Johnston. Besides its high interest in a meteorological point of view, the question of the distribution of rain in Africa is one of so much practical importance in the gradual accumulation of knowledge of the continent, that no apology seems to benecessary for an attempt to trace out, however imperfectly it can be done as yet, the broader features of this problem. Indirecting the proper times for successful exploration by Europeans of the many regions of the continent which are still unknown, a knowledge of the seasons of rain and drought must be of the greatest consequence. The natives even can only venture into some of the more arid deserts of the Sahara, during the times in which a few fleeting showers fill the distant wells; in tropical Africa, by contrast, the rains of the wet season may inundate the country "thigh and waist deep", so that the traveller is brought to a standstill by the super-abundance of water on all sides of him,

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