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APPENDIX. No. VI. 
I WILL BOW submit the numerals of 31 nations, which, with the exception of three, the 
Fantee, the Accra^ and the Bornoo, (and those but imperfectly,) have never been reported 
before. I will arrange them according to their geographical approximation, remarking 
any apparent affinity which occurs to me, in notes. I shall place the Inta first, because 
it is the most remote, inland, which can be assimilated to the Fantee, Ahanta, Aowin, 
and Amanahea ; and may, probably, from that circumstance, be the root of these lan- 
guages ; as it has been shewn, in the history, that the nations of the water side have been 
gradually pressed down, or have emigrated from the interior, and it is consequently to 
be expected that the etymology of the names of these countries are not to be found in 
the languages of the people who now inhabit them, but more probably in the languages 
of their southern neighbours. Thus, 
Inta is likely to be derived from the Booroom word inta, water , as it has been noticed 
as an alluvial country. 
Yngwa, a northern province of Dagwumba, from the Ashantee anggwa,Jht, rich, or the 
Booroom, yngia, a wood. 
SoTco from SoTi:o, OTie, in the Badaggry (below Dahomy) as Yahndi the capital of Dag- 
wumba was so called from yahndo the numeral one, to indicate its pre-eminence. 
Assin from the Ashantee Assoon, an elephant. But this expectation is not further sup 
. ported in the t^vo or three other probable etymologies which occur to me, as Takima 
from the Ashantee takramma, tongue, AMm (formerly the greatest trading country,) 
from the Booroom AJdmmie, cloth ; Booroom from boora, full, in that language. 
It is curious how nearly the word for God in the Malemba, MToungoo, approaches 
the native name, Empoongwa, of the country Europeans call Gaboon. Wonga is fear in 
the Malemba, and Woonga-woonga is the name of an uninhabited savannah of three days 
extent, between Empoongwa and Adjoomba. 
1. Inta. 2. Booroom. 3. Ashantee. 4. Aowin. 5. Amanahea. 
One(a) Koko Ekoo Akoon Acone Acone 
Two(b) Anyoe Enoo Anoo Enyow Enyow 
(a) The words for the numeral one assimilate in the specimens 1^ 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 : 
again, but distinctly, in 14, 15, 16 : also in 26, *a5, 13 : in 21, IS, 20, 19 : in 27, 28, 29, 
(making apparently five roots), but they remain solitary in IJ, 17, 22, 23, 24 30 and 31. 
The numeral one in 14 is not unlike the two in 8, 9, 2, 3, and the one in 13, would, with 
