APPENDIX I. 
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English. 
Salt, 
Sand, 
White, 
Black, 
Red, 
Yellow, 
Green, 
Good, 
Makooa. 
Ma-ka. 
Me ta ga. 
E goo o. 
Wa ru ba. 
Yoo che ri ah. 
Soo fei re. 
Oo r^ rah. 
Ego 00 re be. 
3/bw/oM. 
Je-te, 
Me h. gab, 
Je pan je, 
Kam pe ri oo, 
Ya koo sw6 ra, 
Del la ma, 
Ooo ko to, 
Na ma ta ba. 
E and u, are to be sounded like French letters; ch is invariably soft; a 
is meant to express, generally, the same sound as a in " hammer/' and with 
the accent over it to be still broader; o, to be sounded as oa in boat, 
and ( ' ) after either a consonant or vowel denotes a singular kind of catch 
in the sound peculiar to the natives of Africa. 
The following words were given me by some sailors attached to an Arab 
boat, who called themselves Sowauli^ which appears to be quite a distinct 
people from the Somauli. This tribe dwells on the Eastern Coast of Africa, 
extending from Mugdasho (where my informant said a great river ran 
into the sea called Webbe) to the neighbourhood of Mombasa. In per- 
son they resemble the Makooa, being of the true negro race, black, stout, 
and ill-favoured. These men possessed no knowledge of the interior 
country or tribes, having early been engaged in a sea-faring life, but men- 
tioned that to the south of them were found tribes of Galla. Their lan- 
guage appears scarcely to deserve the name of a distinct dialect, but is a 
kind of mixed jargon^ nearly allied to the Monjou, spoken at the sea ports 
Mugdasho, Jubo, Lama, and Patta. 
English* 
Father, 
Mother, 
Son. 
Thy brother, 
Wife, 
Sowauli, 
Babbe-akoo. 
A-ma-vo. 
Ma-to to. 
Dugghe a-koo. 
Ma na moo ke. 
English. 
Husband. 
Young girl. 
A mountain. 
Fire. 
Water. 
S(mmuli, 
Am bo ya. 
Se ja na. 
Ma-toom b6. 
Mo-to. 
Mo ye. 
