ADDENDA. 



THE Kaffir words given below may be useful to enable 

 some visitor to South Africa to make known to the Kaffirs 

 a few of his wants. 



I will not vouch for the correctness of the grammar of 

 which I have made use, but the Kaffirs will understand 

 what may be required from even these sentences. 



Each word ought to be pronounced as it is written, the 

 last syllable but one being always rested on longer than 

 the others. The a, e, and i, are pronounced as in French. 

 The plural is in general formed by prefixing ama y and 

 dropping in some cases the first syllable; as, indoda, a 

 man ; amadoda, men ; ihashi, a horse ; amahashi, horses. 

 The numerals are more easily explained by holding up the 

 fingers, shumi being ten ; amashumi, tens. Thirty would 

 be explained as tens, three, amashumi m'tatu, or by open- 

 ing and shutting the hands three times. 



The click which is used by the Kaffirs need not be 

 attempted by the beginner in the language, there are so 

 very few words which require the click, and these few are 

 quite easily understood without it. The ambitious linguist 

 frequently renders himself quite unintelligible to a Kaffir, 



