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APPENDIX. 
3. Bowdicli’s Empooqwa Numerals. Bowdicli’s Aslianti. 
3, 4, 5f 6. The Sheekan, Kaylee, Oongoomo^ and Oongabai 
Numerals of Bowdich. Allied to each other and to the Em- 
poongwa. 
6. The Rungo Vocabiilary of Mrs. Kilham. 
7. The Bongo Vocabulary of Mrs. Kilham. 
8. The Cape Lopez Vocabulary of the Mithridates. 
9. A Poongwee Grammar. By the American Missiona^ries. 
Known to me only through a reference of Mr. Bartlett’s*. 
With none of thesCj however, has the Bimbia any very close 
and unmistakcable affinity. Out of more than 20 words, the 
following are the only ones which it has in common with the 
Ponga of Delaporte. 
English. 
Smoke 
Plouse 
Dog 
Fish 
Bimbia. 
. itutu 
. daw ok 
. umbah 
. Ill eh 
PONGUA, 
. toutou 
. nao 
, meboua 
. uele 
As compared with a short list from the MS. Cameroons voca- 
bularies, the Bimbia exhibits the following scanty affinities. 
English 
star. 
Bimbia 
sumbi. 
Susu 
tumbi. 
Popo 
sungvi. 
Akuonga 
mambi. 
English 
sun. 
Bimbia 
ewi. 
Fante 
eiiia. 
Tapua 
elii. 
Popo 
euei. 
Ibii 
aiu. 
English 
moon. 
Bimbia 
engondah. 
Bongo 
gounti. 
English 
mother. 
Bimbia 
yiyeli. 
Eornu 
iai. 
Ako 
iia 
English 
sea. 
Bimbia 
nianja. 
modena. 
Bongo 
madiba. 
English 
bouse. 
Bimbia 
dawoh. 
Moko 
ndap. 
Benin 
nlap. 
English 
man. 
Bimbia 
niotu. 
Cameroons 
muto. 
English 
woman. 
Bimbia 
mytu. 
Cameroons 
muto. 
English 
brother. 
Bimbia 
nanyanganii. 
Karaba 
iienakami. 
* The Progress of Ethnology. By J. Russell Bartlett. New 
York, 1847. 
