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soTcreign, remarking at the same time, that if any stranger 
were now to enter the country, his reception would be very 
different. 
These men appeared to be perfect negroes ; their skins were of 
I3L shining black, and their features coarse and ill-favoured. They 
spoke Arabic almost as fluently as their native language, which 
was Furian, and of the latter they gave me a pretty copious 
vocabulary, which will be found inserted in the Appendix. On 
my return to England, I submitted this to the perusal of my friend 
Mr. Browne, who immediately recognized about a dozen 
words,'' but found that they did not bear any resemblance to 
ihe Shilha language,'' which he had before suspected. The 
melancholy fate which has since befallen this traveller, who was 
barbarously murdered by a band of robbers in an attempt to 
penetrate to the north-east of Persia, renders his remarks on this 
subject particularly valuable ; I have therefore inserted the whole 
of his note at the bottom of the page and to those who, like 
myself, admired his unassuming worth and extraordinary ac- 
quirements, this slight tribute of respect to his memory may not 
prove unacceptable. 
* Dear Sir, 
I recognise without difficulty about a dozen words of tTie Furian vocabulary. I do not 
trace any resemblance to the Shilha, however, as I suspected. Two or three words resem- 
ble those of the same meaning in my vocabulary of Dar Kunga, in which Har signifies 
foot, and Gnung, meat, the latter very like your Neno, bread. Diil and Doual, for sun 
and moon, were given to Mr. Hamilton (vide p. 24 of his Travels) for Fiirian words by 
a.Tocruri, or faquir, whom he met at the Cataract going to Mecca in 1802 ; by whom 
also a number of names are mentioned, which shew he came from Dar Fur. 
your's faithfully, 
. W. G. BROWNE. . 
