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addition to these, a brief vocabulary of the Goand language, 

 from the MSS. of the late Dr. Voysey, and we trust that 

 the friends of science, and we will add, of humanity, (for the 

 knowledge of the language of the savage or the half-civilised 

 man is the first step to the humanizing influences of civili- 

 sation,) will not fail to remember that even a few hours spent in 

 noting down, from time to time, words of any dialect of any 

 tribe, may throw an invaluable light on this complex but cu- 

 rious problem, and perhaps furnish one day to the political 

 agent, the military officer, the traveller, the trader, and the 

 philanthropist, the most effective means of forwarding, each 

 in their sphere, the power, the knowledge, the wealth, or the 

 moral influence of our noble father-land. 



