126 
REPORT— 1847 . 
On the Position of Ethndogy us a Science. 
By J. C. Prichard, M.D., F.R.S. 
On a native Touarich Alphabet, wUk the correspondiny Ardjic and Eiyluk 
Beiters. 7 /y J. Richardsok. 
The Icticra of the alphabet ftre fuunil carveJ on the rocks of the SohAn u Cu u 
authority extends; somctmics whole blocks are covered with thti*. 
l^'fT names and their corresponding equiralents in the Arabic were dictated to Mt. 
l^cJiarflaon by an iDlelligcjit notive. It is possible that the whole alphsbel msf not 
oe ft ’presetitcii within three or four chnracters. Some of the leiten appear to he 
written both honaontally «ml poi’pendtcnlarjy: they are also wriileii both t'mm nghi 
to Im and from left to right. The former a«‘onis to be the case with the Arable ud 
orcign words, the latter with the nutirc Touarick. 'ITie rescrnblsucei between ibi* 
fiinractcrs uiid ilMwc of any other isalion are partial and indefinite. The mod spa- 
rent arc with the Semitic chai’octers. 
On the Races of the Ointbric Chcrso/mc. By Nprton Shaw, 
On the Resm^hes of the late Charles Tutschek into the Galla, Tmali.and 
m Other African Lanyuayes. By Lawrence Tutschek, ?LD. 
In tlic year 1838, four young negroes were entrusted to the charge of Dr. Cbiiin 
^^hek of Munich, 'ihoyhad been purchased and emancipated by the DiikeMui- 
»T.. ! l-° . cT East. A t fin,t suspicion and Tahtru.1 msdt 
or 8 0 1 1 . Iiitschek la oblnln inforiiiHtiiiu uimvailing. An altaek of ulsw 
nf one of them converted tlu’s into npennesji nml g/Fectioii. Tie 
f Mir tiiade by Dr. 1 utHcliek, uinm tli£ increase of fainlliaritv, was tint lie 
n of fi.ur diiftmit nations I, the Galla; 2, tie 
i a '*• ihfDinka. Each, with the exception of il« H 
undemtoml his mntimr-n.ngue thoroughly. ^ 
£rT»inmBP«*J^il,Jl '‘^“chek began tlio coUoctiotJ of vocalmlarics and fli« fomiil'oa of 
Snr in a i»ivnt , ^®*E®cbve Junguages ; availing liimself of a talout paasessed in dl 
diOicHldJ? buih^^^i tftlt'nt for narrative. The result was, tbit in f^'leof 
youths fframmar nnd orthogrsphv, the dictations vf these 
5o A rri^“roIo^^ sufficiency of material for tl.e addifmu of several unpoHanl diti 
shortuli 'u which the greatest progress was mstle in ihe 
lished bv f aurmn?! a* , ‘I ^'“Dguagc. Composed by Charles Tutschek, puli- 
ktlK ; RyChsrLrntschek. Edited bybawroK.’ 
nisLwl youth were less important. They hare fitf- 
Uupu).ii.hcd. The lniim*,a^^ “ glossary and a grammatical sketch of the bi'fwt- 
3 A wan the Dink ^ luugUAgeof Metbern, seven daj-s south ofKU*e. 
ciaJi.So obwrS'Vr!."’-, "r" l."p"4rka« be." 
TuUcbok in ISn d^vnlv ^ upon whom, at the deilh uf Dr. C. 
and who lias aineVad 1 ,1 i^-*^ arrangement and publication of his broilier* Ms?.. 
iTs *r.ta?J 7 VfrT; F« these see tim • Re,>ort upon th* 
tolugical bociety/^ Ethnographical Phaologj-,' and the ' Transactions of die llii- 
On a Vocadalajy of the Fazoglo Language. 
Coll<^d in tl Lawrence Tutschek, M.D. 
emancipated ®y®ung negro, purchased at Alexandria. 
/ uke Maximilian of Bavaria. It represents the language of 
