Brewer's: Gojam

A province of Abyssinia (Africa). Captain Speke traced it to Lake Victoria Nyanza, near the Mountains of the Moon (1861).

The swelling Nile. From his two springs in Gojam's sunny realm, Pure-welling out.

Thomson: Summer.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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