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 English.

Sister, Man's head, Hair, Ear, Eyes, Mouth, To eat, To drink, To sit down, To sleep, To cut the throat, He is dead, Come, Go away, Let us go away, Gently, Mine, Thine, War, A cannon, Fire, A bow, Arrows, A spear, A musquet, Bread, Salt, Sand, White, Black, Red, Yellow, Green, Good,

Makooa.

Min-yú. Mú roo. Ká rá re. Ne á ro. Me-to. Ya-noo. Oo re a. Ghoo re a. Ka lá te. A rú ba. Wee-vah. O kú ah. Ro a no. Cou wé. - - Moo re ma. Ak-ka. Ak-wow. E cō to. Me zin ga. Moor-ro. Moor-ra. E ta ra. Le-va-ga. - - Moo rá ma. Ma-ka. Me ta ga. E goo o. Wa ru ba. Yoo che ri ah. Soo fei re. Oo ré rah. Ego oo re be.

Monjou.

Bo. Mu too wé. Hoom po. Ma koot wé. Mé zo. Oun-wa. Koo le a. Khun-wa. At á me. A gō né. An voo a ké. Ou wee re. Aiz. I en de. Too wen de. Ap po lee. An goo. At-wa-lah. An gōn da. Me-zin ga. Mo-to. O koo á ze. Im pam ba. Le pán gá. Ooh te. Ma sam ba. Jé-te. Me á gah. Je pan je. Kam pe ri oo. Ya koo swé ra. Del la ma. Ooo ko to. Na ma ta ba.

Native Dialect, from Dos Santos. Cuni, a particular kind of drink.

É and ú, are to be sounded like French letters; ch is invariably soft; a is meant to express, generally, the same sound as a in "hammer," and with the accent over it to be still broader; ō, to be sounded as oa in boat, and (') after either a consonant or vowel denotes a singular kind of catch in the sound peculiar to the natives of Africa.

The following words were given me by some sailors attached to an Arab boat, who called themselves Sowanli, which appears to be quite a distinct people from the Somauli. This tribe dwells on the Eastern Coast of Africa, extending from Mugdasho (where my informant said a great river ran into the sea called Webbé) to the