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Cuftoms, as were coiifequent upon thefe Invafions; thofe 

 Africans who retired to the Mountains and there formed them- 

 felves into KabyUah [Ja^*] or Clans, may be fuppofed to have 

 been the leaft afFedled with thofe Novelties. It may be far- 

 ther urged, that as They would be hereby obliged to converfe 

 chiefly among themfelves,fo,for thefameReafon,they w^ould con- 

 tinue to be much the famePeople,and, in all probability, preferve, 

 their Original Language without any confiderable Alteration. 

 But what this was, he muft be a very bold Conjedlurer who 

 can at this Diftance of Time pretend to afcertain. For indeed 

 it is fcarce conceivable but that the Carthaginians, who pof- 

 feflTed all Africa ' from Cyrene to the Atlantic Ocean, muft, in 

 confequence of their many Conquefts and Colonies have infome 

 Meafure introduced their own Language, of which we have 

 a Specimen * in the T^nulus of Tlautus. And a ftill greater 

 Change muft it probably have fuffered from the fucceflive Ad- 

 miflion oi Romans and Vandals into thefe Countries. Thus much 

 however is certain that there is no Affinity at all betwixt.what may ''^f'' "" ^z^'^- 



\ _ "^ •' tion to the 



be fuppofed to be, the primitive Words in the ^/jOT^/i^/j' (as they Hebrew »y 

 call this Language at prefent) and the Words which convey the "^""s*^"- 

 fame Meaning in the Hehrew and Arah'ick Tongues. For 

 Thamurt ^Arghaz, Thamtuth,Agarum,Akfnm &c. their Names 

 for Earth, a Man, a Woman, Bread, Fleflj &c. cannot, I pre- 

 fume, be any way related to the Orif«/^/ Languages. But the 

 Reader is referred to a Vocabulary of this Language, which is 

 inferred after the Excerpta. ' 



Having thus defcribed the different Habitations of thefe r,^e Hyke, 

 People, I ftiall now give an Account how they employ them- 

 felves in Them. Under this Head therefore will be comprifed 

 their Manufadures, Habits and Manner of Living. Now the 

 chief Manufacture among the Kah/les and Arahs is the making 

 of Hj/hes^ ( as they call Woollen Blankets) and Webs of Goats 

 Hair for their Tents. The Women alone are employed in 

 this Work , as Andromache and Tenelope were of old , who 

 make no ufe of a Shuttle , but conduct every Thread of the 

 Woof with their Fingers. One of thefe Hykes, is ufually fix 



I Vid. Both. Chan. inPrsfat. 2 Wii.. 1.2. cap. r. 3 The Language of the Moun- 

 taineers in S.VV. B^rbary is called 5/«//4/7, differing in fomeWords from the Shotviah ; but the 

 meaning of the Names I could never learn, unlefs perhaps they were called after feme con- 

 fiderable Clanswho might be either the Authors or Confervators of them. 4 Probably de- 

 rived from i^ys^ texiiU. 



D d d d Yards 



