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countries on the Atlantic, soutJi of the Gaboon ; the corresponding portiom of 
the eastern coast of Africa ; and the Cape. 
It was known to Adelung that the languages of— 1. Loango, 2. Congo, 
and 3. Angola, were closely allied to each other ; i. e. (to nse his oi^ii illus¬ 
trations) in the same way as the English and Danish, the Castilian and Portu¬ 
guese, or even the Calabrian and Vcnetiau dialects of the Italian. Hence ill 
the dialects of the countries in question were classed under the common title 
of the Congo languages. 
It was also known that the grammatical affinity between these languages 
coincided with the glossarial; in other words, the structure of the L^go, 
Congo, and Angola languages was known, and it was known to be the laae 
throughout The data were as follows:_ 
^ 1. Observations of Proyart on the language of Loango, or Kukongo, in 
his history of that country. Paris, 1777. 
2. A Loango vocabulary of Oltlendorp. 
3. A Mandongo vocabulary of Oldendorp. 
4. A Camba vocabulaiy' of Oldendorp. Closely allied to the Mandongo- 
5. A Congo vocabulary from the Allgemeine Shtorie der JReisen. 
6. A Congo vocabulary of OlderKlorp. 
7. A Congo vocabulary of De GrandprO. 
. Brusciotti a Vetralla regu/ts quepdam pro diffidllim Congtn- 
stum tdiomatis facitiori captu ad Grammatica: normam redacta, Rome, 1659- 
11. A MS. grammar of the Angola. 
arte da lingua de Angola. Lisbon, 1697. 
13. GerUilig^tgolla: Jidei mgsturiis JLusitano olim idiomale per Antonivx^ 
(U CoacU^ societ. Jesu t/tcologum, nunc autern Latino per Ft. Anioniw’i 
Manuin Prando-montanHm Concionat. Capucinum irntructusaiqueloctiplf 
tatus. Romuj, IGfil. (^Sic apnd Mithr.') 
The later vocabularies arc as follows: _ 
1. A Malcmba vocabulary by Smith, botanist in Captain Tuckep 
Voyage totli£ Congo, l»ublished as an Appendix to the Narrative. 
2. An Einboma vocabulary. Do. 
3. Afew Mulemba woi-ds occur as glosses in Bowdich’s Ashantee vod- 
Duiary. At first 1 thought these represented the language of the River Ma- 
Iinib^ near the Cameroons. Tiicy seem, however, to coincide more with 
the Maleniba of Smith. 
4. A Congo vocabulary, collected in 1846 by Dr. Daniel. >MS. Thisrt- 
presents the language of Emboraa. 
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coverS.’’^^* numeral, quoted l.y Prichard from Bowdich's Portuguese dii* 
coverts by Prichard from Bowdich’s Portuguese dh- 
9 A Congo. 
10 An vocabulary by Douville.— Voyage d Congo. 
or Rnnl Congo. The Abunda 
or llunda is the language of Angola. ^ 
at Bra 7 il Congo is a literary imposture, being coucocted 
just as his ^ Vocabularies represent Congo language; 
iver^onowZ f. 'J'bree other vocabularies hoW- 
like the rest nf Bomba and Saio.exe, I tbtnl, 
rest of the work—fictions. They are morp liks French or Laua 
