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the earth. The English have characterised it by the names of 

 sighing, or duelling, and also especially click language* Here 

 is a new difference, a radical difference in relation to so many 

 others, which decidedly forms, from these Bosjesmans, a people 

 whom it is impossible to ally, it does not signify how, or under 

 what aspect, to any other of the divisions of the great human 

 family. 



* " The sound of their voice resembles sighing." " Their language re- 

 sembles the clucking of a turkey." Compare White, Account of the regular 

 gradation of Man, p. 67, London, 1799. Appleyard, The Kafir Language, p. 3, 

 8vo, King William's Town, 1850. Morel, Traite des Degenerescences del'espece 

 humaine, p. 42, Paris, 1857. "The Kafirs have adopted some of the in- 

 flexions in use among their neighbours, but as a simple ornament to their 

 speech, without attributing any special signification to these ' duckings.' " 

 Is. Greoffroy- Saint-Hilaire (Correspondence). 



