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THE NEW AFRICA 
Georgetown in the Old Colony in 1860 , and have in common 
with these the law that when a man marries a girl he has the 
first call on her next unmarried sister, in case his wife becomes 
ill or dies, without making any further payment to the parents 
on behalf of this new wife. They argue that she will make the 
best mother to the children of her departed sister, and therefore 
the man is entitled to her. The man has no right to claim a 
third sister, unless under a new purchase, for whatever price the 
parents may fix on their child, as in the first instance. 
The language is also much the same as the Hottentot, having 
only suffered slight variations from the original, through 
many years of separation from the parent tongue. The name 
‘ Mosarwa,’ in the Kalahari, is given to them because they live in 
groups of small families without any distinct headman, each 
group independent of the others. 
Some words that are alike amongst the Gona Hottentots and 
the Mosaros are:—Water = Sha, Elephant = Swa, Path = Dau, Fire 
= Qay, Camel = Gabe, Eland = Du, Lion = Simba, Buffalo = Qauqau 
with two clicks, Ostrich = Garoo, Stone = Garau. The languageys 
full of the most peculiar clicks, which it is futile for any pen to 
try to reproduce; but, generally speaking, they may be put down 
as linguo-dental, linguo-palatal, linguo-buccinatal, and linguo- 
palato-laryngeal. A minute investigator may expose several 
more combinations of clicks, but the inquisitive reader can com¬ 
pose these for himself by mixing the raw material given above, 
and grouping the sounds to please himself; they are sure to be 
right if the clatter made in such conversations as I have heard 
between these people may be taken as an indication to confirm 
the statement, for I can safely liken the language to the clicking 
of a multitude of different rusty old gun-locks simultaneously 
set in motion. It is simply appalling to hear the fatty click gut 
tkoot, tick lick mktchuk gtkowktok gtu-gkti-gkkij, accompanied 
by many gurglings one might think are worthy of better things 
than to represent this language. 
