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iny; the distinctive sound each uttered. Hence KUKU, the 

 cock, and ihlvUNGUVU, the crow, whose name gives us in 

 English a verb to describe his song when " the jolly cock 

 crawis," as Montgomery has it. KWALE is the partridge 

 and KANGA the peahen. Again, among beasts, PAKA and 

 PUKU are cat and rat, both squeakers in turn. GU, the 

 sheep, may have had some relation in the primitive Bantu 

 mind to the wallowing GULUVE and GUVU, pig and hippo. 

 GIGE, locust, is obviously related to GI, a fly. 



Table of l*"LoRA-h'AU.\A Names. 

 (.\11 G's as in Dutch.) 



Tame- GI'LI'VE GU VOGO bull 



VWA dnL; 



VI 'Li .Ui.at 



Wild : GUVU KIM.A. ape P.\KA PUKU \.\TI u ildox 



GWi panther PAL.V antelope 



GOGU elephant PIT I hyena 



Creepint;- thini^s : GWEXA KOMBA snail 



KULU tortoise XOKA snake 



Birds: iliKUNGP'VU PWE ostrich 



KWALE 

 KUKU KAXGA 



Insects: GI GIGE KUPA XUKI 



Plants: GIKiU KUPA iliTAXGA 



eartlnuii pumpkin 



Of the vegetables, besides the melon, only earthnut and 

 pumpkin are given, both beginning with late mixed sounds. It 

 would seem that at first the Bantu may have been without even 

 those early finds, and have fed on game with promiscuous 

 berries, eggs and pupse, moths, etc.. as soon as weaned, as the 

 Bushmen and their Bantu pupils did in the famine I speak of 

 elsewhere, loo years ago. Ever cramped for variety of 

 vegetable, the Bastitos had. till the white man came, pods and 

 berries alone for fruit. Yet we tind a tradition that sweetreed 

 and millet, or kafircorn, were given to the tirst human couple. 

 Maize, on the other hand was introduced in historic times by 

 the Portuguese to the Becoana. to eke out their scanty list of 

 cane, pumpkin, beans, melon. Our old centenarian told me 

 that mealies appeared in Modderpoort district together with 

 the missionaries. 



So let us leave the Bantu Adam, with his wide but unridy 

 animal kingdom, naming beast and bird and creeping thing; 

 for he has nothing nearer fish than crocodile or seal (kuena, 

 from which the Basuto chiefs take their title, has both mean- 

 ings in inland and coast dialects), and no vegetable kingdom 

 to speak of. In conclusion, let us, with Skeat's help, make 

 a similar analysis of the English names corresponding, and be 

 thankful for our happier lot. that we have not such knowledge 

 of fearsome beasts. Fearful they were in days of mammoth, 

 but had all nearly passed away from Britain and the Low 



