ISO TRAVELS IN 
jiifies a horfe and an arrow; It Is alfo tlie name 
of a river : the difference alone in the clapping 
of the tongue determines the precife Idea 
which it is meant to convey. Pronounced 
fimply, without any colllfion, it fignifies 'a 
horfe; with the fecond clapping, of which I 
have fpoken, it fignifies a river; and, with 
the third, it fignifies an arrow. In the like 
manner K-ou ip is a rock ; i^-ou ipy the n^me 
of the buftard ; A-^^ ip^ that of a venomous 
ferpent; and K-ka ip^ a kind of African ante- 
lope. 
Befides thefe three kinds of clapping, which, 
as may be eafily feen, are indifpenfably necef- 
fary, certain parts of fome words ^re nothing 
(elfe but founds formed in the throat ; but it 
is impoffible to defcribe them, and they can 
be imprinted in the memory only by long 
pra6tice. I fiiall diftinguifh them by a fmall 
Grofs placed over the letter where they are to 
be ufed. 
To be more fcrupuloufly exad, I muft 
add, that one w^ord often has two different 
fignifications, by the brevity or weak found 
pf one of its vowels. 
From what I have fiiid, it may be eafiiy 
feen how difficult it would be to write this 
language 
