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volume called 6 East African folk-lore, Swahili 

 Tales, as told by the natives of Zanzibar,' with 

 an English translation by Edward Steere, L.L.D., 

 Rector of Little Steeping, Lincolnshire, and 

 Chaplain to Bishop Tozer (London : Bell and 

 Daldy, 1870) ; 1 and Dr Krapf has proposed to 

 publish the Juo ya Herkal (Book of Heraclius), 

 'an account of the wars of Mohammed with 

 Askaf, Governor of Syria, to the Greek Emperor 

 Heraclius, in rhyme ; a MS. in ancient Ki-Suahili 

 written in Arabic characters.' Also c Juo ja 

 Utenzi, Poems and Mottoes in rhyme,' the 

 dialect being that formerly spoken in the Islands 

 of Patta and Lamu. Both the fi linguistie trea- 

 sures ' were presented to the Oriental Society 

 of Halle. The last publications which I have 

 seen are ' Specimens of the Swahili Language ' 

 (Zanzibar, 1866) ; c Collections for a Handbook 

 of the Swahili Language, as spoken at Zanzibar, ' 

 by Bishop Tozer and Bev. E. Steere (Zanzibar, 

 1865), and the Bev. E. Steere's 'Collections for 

 a Handbook of the Shambala Language ' (Zanzi- 



1 Messrs Monteiro and Gamitto (O Muata Cazembel, 

 Appendix, 470) doubt whether the Tete grammar can be 

 reduced to an intelligible system of verbs. I see no difficulty. 

 Capt. Boteler, R. N. (Appendix, vol. i. Voyage to Africa, 

 Benll 'W L835) easily collected a ' Delagoa Vocabulary ' from 

 George, his interpreter. 



