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nate with other tribes ; but in order to group them 
it is necessary to collect specimens of their lan- 
guages. 
Around A'damaVa, partly Avithin, partly beyond its 
boundaries, but in a certain degree of subjection, are 
the following tribes : the Tikar (by this name at 
least they are called by the Fiilbe, though they have, 
probably, another name for themselves, as by this they 
do not seem to be known near the coast*), the Yetem, 
the Dokaka, the Bati, a tribe of rather light colour, 
the Daka, the Were, the Dmgding (partly armed with 
muskets, and regarded by the Fiilbe as Christians), 
the Mbdfu. Then the Waga, the Yangur, and the 
Roba. With most of these tribes the reader will be 
brought into nearer contact by the itineraries sub- 
joined in the Appendix, where I shall have occasion 
to add a few remarks with regard to information ob- 
tained by Europeans near the coast. Here, however, 
it will be not without interest to compare with this 
list of tribes the following list of languages spoken 
in A'damdwa which Mohammedu gave me : Batta- 
nchif ; Damanchi, the idiom spoken in the province of 
Bubanjidda ; Falanchi ; Bumanchi, or perhaps more 
correctly Mbumanchi, the language of the Mbum and 
of the people of Bay a ; Butanchi ; Tekarchi ; Mundan- 
* Probably their real name is Tika. See Appendix. 
■f The termination nchi, is nothing but the Songhay word ki, which 
in several dialects is pronounced as chi, and means " language." 
On account of this termination being added to the original name, 
I have purposely not marked the accents in this list. 
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