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THE KILIMANJARO EXPEDITION, 
first three numerals, and even Bleek is constrained to 
admit that the difference between the speech of 
Hottentot and Bushman scarcely exceeds that be¬ 
tween English and Latin or English and Sanscrit, 
languages derived from a common Aryan stock, 
though widely separated by time and manner of 
development. 
(a) Masai. 
As far as is known, the neighbourhood of Kilima¬ 
njaro offers languages belonging to only two of the 
African families which I have mentioned—‘the Masai 
aud the Bantu. As has been already stated, helot 
tribes of En-durobo are often found in the vicinity of 
Useri, Kimahgelia, and the north-eastern slopes of 
Kilima-njaro, but those few with whom I came into 
personal contact only spoke Masai, and could not be 
induced to utter any words or phrases of their own 
speech if they still possessed any special dialect pecu¬ 
liar to them. My materials for a superficial study of 
the Masai language were principally derived from in¬ 
dividuals, both Masai proper and the so-called “ Wa- 
kwavi,” or agricultural Masai, who visited the chief 
Mandara for trade during my residence in Mosi; 
from the Wa-kwavi of Kikoro, near Taveita; from 
the few Masai whom I met near Useri, and from the 
roving Masai who visited Gonja, at the foot of the 
Bare hills, and Semboja’s town, Mazindi, on the 
western flank of Usambara. I find my vocabularies 
agree pretty closely with those of Krapf and Erhardt, 
and the chief differences arise from what I believe to 
be the more exact orthography I have employed. 
Erhardt gives in general the form of the word more 
correctly than Krapf. Both their vocabularies, how¬ 
ever, are deserving of the highest credit as having 
