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pered, and set in a row on a hollow case of wood, about five inches 
square, closed on three sides, and is generally played upon with 
a piece of quill. One of these instruments which I brought to 
England has twenty of these bars. There is another described 
in Purchas that had only nine, which also differs in some other 
respects from the one I have just mentioned. As the description 
of this in old English is characteristic, I shall here give it to the 
reader. — Another instrument they have called also ' Ambira, ^ 
all of iron wedges, iiat and narrow, a span long, tempered 
in the fire to diiFering sounds. They are but nine set in a 
rew, with the ends in a piece of wood as in thenecke of a viole^ 
and hollow, on which they play with their thumbe nailes, which 
they weare long therefore, as lightly as men with us on the 
virginals, and is better musicke.-' 
I have given in the Appendix a vocabulary of the language 
of the Makooa, to which, in a second column, I have added 
that of the Monjou, a people respecting which I have already fur- 
nished all the scanty information I had the means of obtaining.* 
It remains for me to remark, that the latter appear to be of a milder 
nature than the Makooa, but this impression I may have received 
from having seen their traders only. I have also given a few 
words taken from John Dos Santos, t who gives them as part of 
the language generally spoken at Zimbaoa, the capital of the 
Quiteve, or, as he is commonly called, the Emperor of Monoraotapa. 
* I perceived that some of the settlers were extremely jealous of the attention I paid 
to the natives, and had not the Governor liberally assisted me, I should latterly have been 
scarcely pernjitted to speak to them. 
t Vide Histoire de I'Ethiopie Orient : par C. R. Pere Jean dos Santos. Paris,, 1684, 
A translation from the Portuguese by G. Charpy. 
