W. F. Daniell, Esq., on the Natives of Old Callebar. .327 



religion of the inhabitants resembles that of the Western 

 African nations ; they recognize a Good and Evil Spirit, in- 

 variably propitiating the latter by means of superstitious sa- 

 crifices and oblations. As I shall, in a future series of papers, 

 enter more at length upon the religion of Africa, I shall defer 

 any further consideration of it till then. 



Supplement. — Upon the Philological Ethnography of the 

 Countries around the Bight of Biafra. By R. G. 

 Latham, M.D. 



The philological data for the parts about the Old Callebar 

 River, that were collected by Mr Daniell during his residence 

 in those quarters, were kindly communicated by him to me 

 when he was in England ; and I believe that I am only ful- 

 filling a promise, when I draw up the present short abstract 

 of my researches upon the vocabularies of the countries in 

 question. The subject was briefly touched at the Cambridge 

 Meeting of the British Association. In the present paper I 

 allow myself to go a little beyond the geographical area to 

 which I at first restricted myself, and to deal with all the 

 languages between the Lagos on the north, and the Gaboon 

 on the south. 



Nearly all that is known concerning the languages of this 

 tract, has become known within the last few years ; a fact 

 which we may verify by stating, that in the Mithridates there 

 occur but three vocabularies for the whole coast between Da- 

 homey and Loango. Our present data are as follows : — 



I. For the parts between Dahomey and Benin. — -The most 

 northern kingdom, and the one that lies on the sea-coast, is 

 the kingdom of Yebu, so named by Monsieur D'Avezac, the 

 writer who has given us the best information regarding it. 



1. Esquisse Grammatical de la Langue Yeboue — ^followed 

 by a vocabulary — Memoires de la Societe Ethnologique, vol. ii. 

 — Monsieur D'Avezac's authority was a native Yebou, of 

 the name of Ochi Fekou6. M. D'Avezac obligingly commu- 

 nicated this vocabulary to the editor of the Vocabulary for the 



