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besides being vernacular at the last named place, is the language 
of commerce on the eastern coast of Africa, like the Malay 
among the East India Islands. The native above mentioned stated, 
that it is different from either of the tongues indigenous to his own 
country. 
Boston, July, 1845. 
Caw Bs 
Vocabulary of the Soahili Language. 
Lao, to-day. Thalatha, three. 
Cassio, to-morrow. Aroba, four. 
Cassio cuto, day after to-morrow. Cumsa, five. 
Mise,* month. Seita, six. 
Marka, year. Sebah, seven. 
Secoo, day. Themania, eight. 
Gama, good. Tissa, nine. 
Acouna gama, no good, bad. Asher, ten. 
Vouta, pull. Hedasher, eleven. 
Nenda, go. é Thenasha, twelve. 
Nouse [noos}, half. Thalatasha, thirteen. 
Aroba, quarter. Arobasha, fourteen. 
Real, dollar. Cunstasher, fifteen. 
Cas robo real, three quarters of a dollar. |Setasher, sixteen. 
Thumoney, twelve and a half cents. Sabatasher, seventeen. 
Nouse thumoney, six and a quarter | Themaniatasher, eighteen. 
cents. ‘Tissatasher, nineteen. 
Bettle, pound. Asharen, twenty. 7 
Lette, bring. Thalathen, thirty. 
Anjo, come. Aroben, forty. 
Zeaseyacu, yams. Cumseen, fifty. 
Dese, bananas. Seiteen, sixty. 
Machungo, orange. Sebeen, seventy. 
Nanas, pine-apples. Themaneen, eighty. 
Desem beche, green plantain. Tissen, ninety. 
Desem befou, ripe plantain. Mea, one hundred. 
Pemba, ivory. Alfe, one thousand. 
Wahed,f one. Mopa, white. 
Theneen, two. Mazungo, white man. 
* Qu. Portuguese, mese ?— Eprr. ene: weigly 
+ These numerals are from the Arabic. Hame, cotton [unbleached]. 
