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A Mendi Vocabulary. 



According to Ashmun, the Fey or Vey people extend from the 

 GaUinas river to Grand Cape Mount, a distance of fifty miles along 

 the coast, and from twenty-five to thirty miles into the interior. 

 Afr. Repos. III. 259. 



According to my informant, the Vai country constitutes two 

 kingdoms, of which Ma-nu and Gen-du-ma are the capitals. 



The principal towns in the Yai country are, Manu, not far from 

 the sea, the residence of king Fu-li-ka-va ; Gen-du-ma, three or 

 four miles from a river, and nine or ten from the sea, the residence 

 of king Sha-ka; Zalu, about twenty miles from the sea,- subject 

 to king Fu-li-ka-va; Dzhu-ling, near the sea, subject to king 

 Sha-ka ; Ho-wil-li, twenty or thirty miles from the sea, subject 

 to king Fu-li-ka-va ; Dam-ba-ru, close to Zalu, subject to king 

 Fu-li-ka-va. 



Art. VIII. — A Mendi Vocabulary ; by the Same. 



The following list of Mendi words and phrases is taken from 

 the mouths of James Covey and Charles Pratt, native Africans. 



The former was born at Go-raun, by the river Mo-a, in the Men- 

 di country ; brought from his native country by Africans to Bul- 

 lom, and sold there to the Spaniards ; recaptured by the English ; 

 taught to read and write English in the English schools at Sierra 

 Leone ; and is now a sailor on board the British brig of war Buz- 

 zard. 



