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Sparig ingeniously explains the longevity of the Ethiopians by the African counting only five months to the year. Speke (Discovery of Source of Nile, 1863, p. 511) found this in Unyoro on the Upper Nile, and perhaps the same short reckoning prevailed earlier on the Middle Nile.
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