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they address the Supreme Being by crying, " Yer ! Yer ! " 

 Now Yero, in the Kaffa language, means " God ;" so that we 

 have here a further proof that the language of these Dokos 

 belongs to the Gonga class. 



In commenting, on a former occasion, on a few words given 

 by Dr Krapf, apparently from the mouth of Dilbo, as speci- 

 mens of the language of Kaffa, I remai-ked,* that " they do 

 not altogether agree with 7ny Kaffa words, which I obtained 

 from persons who were most assuredly natives of Bonga, the 

 capital of that country. From Dilbo's physical appearance 

 and other circumstances, I have reason to believe that he 

 was a native, not of Kaffa itself, but of some neighbouring 

 country, which will account for the difference of language." 

 I may now add, that the description given by M. d'Abbadie 

 of the physical character of the Dokos corresponds so closely 

 with that of Dilbo, that I am inclined to think he was him- 

 self one of those savages. Should this really be the case, 

 the words inserted between brackets in my Kaffa vocabulary 

 will most probably belong to some Doko dialect. 



The next of M. d'Abbadie's unplaced languages is that of 

 Yainbo, which is the name given by that traveller to the negro 

 inhabitants of certain islands formed by the Bahr el Abyad, 

 or the direct stream of the Nile. These islands are placed by 

 him as high up the stream as about 6^ N. lat. ; but, as has been 

 shown by me in a communication recently made to the Geo- 

 graphical Society of Paris, f their true position is in about 

 9° N. lat., below the confluence of the Sobat or River of 

 Habesh. Thus, these Yambos appear to be Denka negroes, 

 and their language will consequently belong to the Nubian 

 class (xiv.). 



The Bdrea is said by M. d'Abbadie to be " spoken by the 

 semi-negroes near the Takkazie ;" that is to say, the " Shan- 

 kalas" of that river ; so that this language is identical with 

 either the Barea of Salt (xxiii.), or with the Dalla (xxil.) 



And lastly, we have the Kon/al, who are stated to " live 

 between Kwara and the Awawa" — that is to say, the Agha- 



* Proceedings of the Philological Society, vol. ii. p. 94, ji. 

 t Bulletin, 3d Ser., vol. viii. p. 356, et seq. 



