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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- A river of central Africa rising in northeast Congo (formerly Zaire) near Lake Albert and flowing about 1,287 km (800 mi) generally westward to the Congo River.
Examples
“But day after day as they dropped down stream new enemies appeared, until at last, at the junction of the Aruwimi, a tributary as large as the main stream, a determined attack was made on them by some two thousand warriors in large canoes.”
“Both Kuamba and Lihuku show a marked relationship with the languages on the northern Congo and Aruwimi, less in grammar than in vocabulary.”
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"
“Others include the Itimbiri, the Aruwimi and the Mubangi.”
“Gold also has been found in the mines of Kambobe, while those of Kilo (Aruwimi) produced”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
“Hubshi of the Aruwimi, the low degraded Woolly One from the dark”
“To them, a clicking Bushman was as a Nubian, an earth-eating Kattia as a Kabyle, a face-cicatrized, tooth-sharpened cannibal of the Aruwimi as a Danakil, -- a _Hubshi_ as a Somal.”
“Clayton, Lord Greystoke, was commissioned to make a peculiarly delicate investigation of conditions in a British West Coast African Colony from whose simple native inhabitants another European power was known to be recruiting soldiers for its native army, which it used solely for the forcible collection of rubber and ivory from the savage tribes along the Congo and the Aruwimi.”
“Major Barttelot was left on the Aruwimi, at Yambuya, with 257 men and the main part of the stores, to await the coming of the promised reinforcements from”
“They have been noticed north of the Zambesi, at the head of Lake Nyassa, in the Nguru mountains near Zanzibar, on the Lulua, on the Sankuru and in the horse-shoe bend of the Kongo, in the Kuango valley, in French Kongo, on the Aruwimi, on the Blue Nile, and in Abyssinia.”
“He was alone, with the exception of a few carriers, and had the good fortune of passing through the country of the Pygmies and that of the cannibals of the Aruwimi without conflict or injury, entering into cordial relations with both peoples.”
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