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Balbaghtoomong - - To draw towards 
Tehtemong _ - - To gather up 
Kakow - - - The tooth ache fw«7i?/ong' a tooth) 
Kodjomong - - - To talk a palaver 
Song - - - - To work as a smith! neechoomong 
Ghnaraong - - - - mechanic J to work 
Ninnamong - - - To separate weeds from earth 
The Accra and Fantee interjections are generally parts of sen- 
tences, as, Mr. Home Tooke has shewn most of our own to be : 
" minnannako,'' what do I see now, " me a whooV I die, " mddja!" 
oh my father, equally responsive to grief, joy, or surprise ; and 
used as involuntarily, and as frequently as the two syllables boh, 
hah, which answer to our oh, and ah, and which, of course, 
cannot be called words. An Ashantee striking his foot against 
a stone, or any thing in his way, exclaims " the thing is mad.'' 
I was surprised to find little, or no inversion in tlie Accra or 
Fantee prose*; the substantive precedes the adjective, but there 
is scarcely any other trace of it : yet, it is one of their poetical 
licenses, as may be instanced in the following line of a Fantee 
song ; 
" Abirrikirri croom ogah odum." 
Foreign town fire put in, 
for " the foreign town is set on fire."" In addition to this inversion, 
so many peculiar additives, (generally vowels,) and inflexions are 
allowed, as well as the figures Synaeresis, Diaeresis, Metathesis, 
* " He (the savage) would not express himself according to our English order of con- 
struction, Give me fruit, but according to the Latin order, Fruit give me, Fructum da 
mihi, for this plain reason, that his attention was wholly directed towards fruit, the 
desired object. This was the exciting idea; the object which moved him to speak, and 
of course would be the first named. Such an arrangement is precisely putting into 
words the gesture which nature taught the savage to make, before he was acquainted 
