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Md Botany; in oAer words, for the parts between Delagoa Bay and the 
Portuguese libraries would probably supply much 
J^MozainbiqtieLanguafjes^Ot^&Q the chief is the Makua; for which 
besides ' 
1. The Makua and Monjou of Salt, known to Vater, there is,— 
^ Ine. l^ua of the Asiatic Society.— MS. Vocabulaire Franmh et Ma~ 
.ftcMCf/ de queh/ues moU de langue Maquouoan. Comtnenc^. en 
This was in the possession of Sir Alexander Johnstone, 
t nave been allowed to avail myself of its contents. 
The Zamibar Languages. — Here the information is almost wholly of 
Zanzibar language best known is the Sowaiel, Sowauli, 
huvabili, or Soluh. 
1. ^t8 i^bulary—Very sliort. Known to Vater. Used by Prichard. 
J Nourelles Annales des \^oyages. Paris, 1845. tii. p. 287.—J«7o. 
8. A vocabulary of the Soalnli language from the ftlemoirs of the Aineri- 
<an Academy. Cambridge, 1815.—Jw^r. 
4. ^aiel vocabulary. — Bombay Geographical Transactions, 1844 . 
5. TbeSuahdiofKrapf.—Collected by Krapf in 1844. MS. in the library 
01 me UmrcJi Jlissionary Society. A lexicon of 10,000 words, with gram- 
iMheal observations, and a translation of Gimesis, the Gospels, and the Acts 
0 e Apostles.— Of the translatioa of Genesis three chapters are published, 
an uitroduetion by Mr. W. W. Greenhough, in the Journal of the. Arne- 
« Orm^l Soeich/y vol. x. No. 111,1 847. KrapfV materials have been ex¬ 
amined, tuther wholly or partiaUy, by the Chevalier Bunsen and Ewald. 
Lib w X Oxford meeting, the labours of Krapf in the So- 
r I^ocomo languages, and also the existence of a Galla 
j ^ degree. The latter has pubUshird in the 
^'**riftderDeH/schm Morgenldndmhen Gesellsc/fajiy a vmr, Ueber die 
^tr uiul bprvehen sudlkh von Aediiopen. 
?' Brown’s on a Whaling Expedition. 
vJ] ‘Woy £ey>/i.—Soailcsc (Sowhylcse, or Sohili) vocabulary, collected 
i Joan btuddy Leigh, Esq., on the east coast of Africa in 1837-39. MS. 
vocabulary was kindly put into my hands by the author, 
^nepdi C^re affinities were less marked in its glossarial, than in its 
lahni elements. An analysis of the Paler Nbstery compared with a 
^^iMed vocabulary, proved this. It was less like the Makua of the Asiatic 
expected. Nevertheless, it had undoubted affinities with 
—A short vocabulary in the MS. last men- 
o«i- Allied to, but not identical xvith, the Soliili. 
man 
Wmaxi 
girl 
boy 
urn 
man 
head 
Aoir 
<ye* 
«ose 
1847. 
Quilimani. 
mulubuana. 
mujana. 
namuale. 
mpale. 
mu ana. 
nmana-muyana. 
azungo. 
’msoro. 
’ntiti. 
nieto. 
puno. 
English. 
ears 
teeth 
chin 
body 
hands 
fingers 
nails 
leg 
feet 
stomach 
belly 
Quilimani. 
maro. 
’nlume. 
erelo. 
tnanungo. 
mada. 
buno. 
viala. 
mieodo. 
maiialo. 
mimba. 
imbane. 
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