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CONTINENT OF AFRICA, 
387 
He squat upon the grass, enjoying the sunshine until 
the next meal. It is heart rending to see so many 
clever looking young people having nothing either 
to do or to learn; their parents having no more to 
inform them of than the cattle have to tell their young. 
May the God of Israel pity them, and dispose his 
people in England to exert their utmost, to relieve 
them from their present state of wretchedness. Their 
language, owing to the strange claps of the tongue on 
the roof of the mouth must be difficult for a European 
to acquire, but I hope not insurmountable. Surely it 
cannot be so difficult to acquire as the Chinese. It 
cannot be a copious language, as they have so few 
things to talk of, but must be a pastoral language, only 
having words adapted to the pastoral life. 
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