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THE KILIMA-NJARO EXPEDITION. 
CHAPTER XX. 
THE LANGUAGES OE THE KILIMA-NJARO DISTRICT. 
(a) Masai. 
(b) Ki-caga, Ki-taveita, &c. (Bantu Languages). 
The interest taken in African languages is a newly 
awakened but a growing one. The work of Bleek, 
Lepsius, Miiller, Steere, and Schon; of Barth, Koelle, 
Krapf, and Reinisch—not to mention many other 
earnest w r orkers in this freshly opened field, who each 
contribute their quota to our present sum of knowledge 
—lias at length begun to meet with due appreciation, 
and though many of these patient grammarians and 
students of unrecognized forms of speech have passed 
away, yet in almost every case their work has begun 
to acquire a notoriety and a value that neither they 
nor their publishers hoped for when the grammars or 
vocabularies or handbooks were first issued to an 
unheeding public. 
Those who are beginning or prosecuting their 
African linguistic researches owe a debt of gratitude 
to Mr. Robert Needham Gust 1 for his painstaking 
bibliographical work, which tabulates every known 
source of information on the subject, and where some 
form of order is introduced into what, from very 
paucity of knowledge, has long been a hopeless maze 
1 “ The Modern Languages of Africa,” 2 vols., Triibner and Co. 
