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Tabula Rotunda Rogeriana of A. D. 1154 (Lelewel, No. X.) two lakes are placed upon the equator, and the north-western discharges to the Atlantic the river Kauga or Kanga, which the learned Mr. Hogg suspected to be the Congo. Marino Sanudo (1321), who has an idea of Guinea (Ganuya) and of Zanzibar (Zinziber), here bends Africa to the south-east, and inscribes,
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Regio inhabitabilis propter calorem. Fra Mauro (1457) reduces
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Ethiopia Occidentalis et Australis to the minimum, and sheds the stream into the F. Xebe (Webbe or Galla-Somal River). Martin von Behaim of Nürnberg (1492) in whose day Africa began to assume her present form, makes the Rio de Padron drain the western face of the Montes Lunae. Diogo Ribera, chief pilot of the Indies under Charles V. (Seville, 1529) further corrects the shape of the continent, and places the R. do Padrão north, and the Rio dos Boms Sinhaes (Zambeze) south of the Montes Lunae. Mercator and Henry Hondt (1623) make the Zaire Lacus the northern part of the Zembre Lacus. John Senex (circ. 1712) shows the
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R. Coango, the later Quango, believed to be the great south-western fork of the Congo. It is not a little peculiar that the last of the classics, Claudius Claudianus, an Alexandrian Christian withal, describes the Gir, or Girrhaeus, with peculiarly Congoese features. In
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De laud. Stilicho.
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Gir, notissimus amnis Æthiopum, simili mentitus gurgite Nilum.
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Eidyll. in Nilum,
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Hunc bibit infrenis Garamas, domitorque ferarum Girrhæus, qui vasta colit sub rupibus antra, Qui ramos ebeni, qui denies vellit eburnos.
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Egypt's heaven-descended stream;