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*' case with regard to the others also ; and I am the more 

 " inchned to beheve the language very general in that 

 " part of Africa from the foUoAving circumstance : I had 

 " formerly a negro servant from Mosambique, who came 

 " by the way of Bombay to Bencoolen, and having taken 

 " down from his mouth the words of his native tongue, I 

 " was afterwards much surprized to find them correspond, 

 " in many instances, not only with the language of the 

 " Cafters, as given by Sparrman, but more especially with 

 " that of Congo, as will be seen on comparing a few of the 

 " words of the latter, as given by Benjamin (the Congo 

 " black) with those taken from my servant. 



Ka^er. 



Sanu. 



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" But it was not my intention to have gone into this de- 

 " tail; the fact, however, is very curious, the distance being 

 " so considerable." 



It is sufficiently remarkable, however, that while this agree- 

 ment is found between the languages of tribes so very distant 

 from each other, so great a difference should prevail in diffe- 

 rent parts of the same district, and at so short a distance, as 



