Note 48 — Chapter X · MISSIONARIES AND SNOW-MOUNTAINS
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By its own people this country is called Wu-nya-mwezi. Wu- is a degenerate form of the Bantu bu- prefix, which is often used to indicate a country. Nya is a particle, meaning “of,” or “concerning,” and mwezi = the moon. Unyamwezi is, however, so far away from Ruwenzori on the one hand or Kilimanjaro on the other that it is difficult to associate its name (which so far as we know has been in existence for about four centuries) with that of the snow-mountains.