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PREFIXES. 



[chap. VI. 



an inanimate thing is superadded to the idea of a man, 

 and the word expresses an old crone. The prefix of 

 the substantive which governs the sentence is con- 

 tinued or hinted at through all the declinable words 

 in it, and gives a bond of union to the whole. The 

 vocabulary is pretty extensive ; it is wonderfully copious 

 on the subject of cattle; every imaginable kind of 

 colour — as brindled, dappled, piebald — is named. It is 

 not strong in the cardinal vii'tues; the language 

 possessing no word at all for gTatitude ; but on looking 

 hastily over my dictionary I find fifteen that express 

 different forms of villainous deceit. 



DAMAKA WEAPONS, ETC. 



