Zaire, Lake

1694. The great historical, geographical and poetical dictionary by Louis Moreri.

Zaire, a Lake of Africa, in Upper Ethiopia, which was formerly upon the Frontiers of the Empire of the Abyssines. The River Zaire runs out of this Lake, and some have thought it was the Source of the Nile. But Jerom Lobo, a Portuguese, who liv'd 12 Years in this Country, and has endeavour'd to discover this Truth, is not of their Opinion, as appears by his Treatise of the Sources of the Nile, and Upper Ethiopia, printed at Coimbro in 1660. Several think, that this Lake of Zaire is the same now called the Lake of Zambeze. Baud.