Nyanza contracted into Nyassa, means lake, marsh, any piece of water, or even the dry bed of a lake.

The _N_ and _y_ are joined in the mouth, and never pronounced separately.
The "Naianza"!--it would be nearer the mark to say the Nancy! Of all theoretical discoverers, the man who ran in 200 miles of Lake and placed them on a height of some 4000 feet at the north-west end of Lake Nyassa, deserves the highest place.

Dr.
Beke, in his guess, came nearer the sources than most others, but after all he pointed out where they would not be found.

Old Nile played the theorists a pretty prank by having his springs 500 miles south of them all! I call mine a contribution, because it is just a hundred years (1769) since Bruce, a greater traveller than any of us, visited Abyssinia, and having discovered the sources of the Blue Nile, he thought that he had then solved the ancient problem.

Am I to be cut out by some one discovering southern fountains of the river of Egypt, of which I have now no conception?
David Livingstone.
[The tiresome procrastination of Mohamad and his horde was not altogether an unmixed evil.