il 
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~ © ie an 
42 A Gissi or Kissi Vocabulary. 
5 : 
Her mother ka-la-ndaw One man la-gna-gnaw pe-le 
Our mother ka-la-na Two men lang-ba gning : 
Your mother ka-la-in-da Three men lang-ba a } 
Their mother ka-la-in-da Four men lang-ba hi-ol [ 
IT eat _yai-di-e Five men lang-ba ngwai-nu : 
Thou eatest nom a-di-e A good man Ja-gna-gnaw ken-daw 
dn-du a-di-e A bad man la-gna-gnaw wawn-du 
We eat na i-di-e A white man la-gna-gnaw him-bu . 
Ye eat in-da a-di-e A black man la-gna-gnaw ti-gni 
They eat in-da a-di-e ‘ ha-la-ma-la-ka tshu- 
A king su-lo sod Taven ee ; le lang- 
Kings su-l = ign tshu-le ha- | 
Close by the king su-lo-li-ko Men love God ~ j a 
A man a-gna-gnaw Give to me yon-ge-a i 
Men _ Tang-ba F 
The Kissi numerals, according to Dr. Prichard, are, 1. pi-li, 2." i 
miu, 3. nga, 4. i-6l, 5. ngue-nu, 6. ngom-pum, 7. ngom-mi-u, 8. 
ngom-mag, 9. ngue-nu-iol, 10. to.—Researches into the Physi- 
cal History of Mankind. Lond. 1837. Vol. II. p. 99. e. 
Dr. Prichard also says: “ The Kissi are a people of whom we 
know nothing, except that they inhabit the mountainous country 
about the sources of the Niger, to the southward of Sulimana and | 
Sangara.”— Researches, Vol. IL. p. 75. 
I add from my informant. hi 
The Gis-si country is bounded on the south by the Men-dicoun- 
try and on the west by Kon-no. at 
The Gis-si people constitute three — one, the capital 
of which is close to Kon-no; the second, the capital of which is 
Kwin-de-hu ; the third, the capital of which is Yen-gi-ma. 
The princi pi towns in the Gis-si country are T'e-i-du, Dwa-va, 
_ Slan-go-lo, Yen-gi-ma, Kwan-go, Dzhim-ba-u, Boin-gba-da or A 
Zon-gi-a-ma, Kom-man-du, Di-gwi-na, Ban-do-ning, Ton-gi, Sai- 
i-du, Du-gau- “nid aw in-de-tre, Kon-dzhu, Dzho-po-a-hu, Tshe- — ; 
son-ne, i.e. new town, Dzham-ba-u, Ta-ku-lo, Su-a-du, Yaw- — 
baw-du, Den-go-ben-gu, De-hu-ma, ete. : 
The principal rivers are (1.) Ma-ku-na, which flows by Slan- 
go-lo and Dzham-ba-u in the Gis-si country, by Kwan-go and 
Yen-gi-ma, now in Gis-si, formerly in the Men-di country, and 
thence into the Men-di country; (2.) Me-li, which flows by Di 
gwi-na and Yaw-baw- -du, and thence to the Kon-no country; i 
and (3. se. = 
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