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but there appears to be a resemblance, amounting to identity, 
between a number of words used by the Malagasy and the natives 
of the Mozambique coast and of the adjacent interior; while, 
with one or two exceptions, no resemblance can be traced to 
words of corresponding import in Malayan or Polynesian. In 
Koelle’s “Polyglotta Africana ” the following words appear, which 
are almost identical with the same words in Malagasy: — 
English. 
African. 
Malagasy. 
Malayan. 
eyes 
maso — Marawi dialect 
maso 
mata 
99 
cow or ox 
mazo — Nyambanco dialect 
nombe — thirteen different 
ombe, or 
lembu and 
dialects with slight varia- 
omby 
sapi 
tions 
mbusi ■ 
goat 
■1 mbozi L 
l mboz J 
osy 
kambing 
fowl 
koku and kuku 
akohu 
burong 
cat, 
paka 
saka and 
kary 
kuching 
dog 
mboa in twelve different dia- 
amboa and 
anjing 
lects, with few and very alikia 
slight variations 
Horned cattle, and dogs, wild and tame, appear to have existed 
from a remote period in Madagascar; and ombe or omby is the 
name for cattle both wild and tame, though they differ from each 
other,—the tame cattle belonging to the zebu species being dis¬ 
tinguished by the lump between the shoulders, and the immense 
herds of wild cattle which exist in the unfrequented parts of the 
island having straight backs like the cattle of Europe. Amboa is 
the name for the domesticated dog, and also for the wild dog of 
the forest. These, and the other Malagasy names of animals above 
specified, are evidently of African origin, and favour the opinion 
that the animals which they designate were derived from the same 
country. Increased acquaintance with the languages of Africa, 
especially such as we may expect to result from the extent to 
which that country has been opened to us by the marvellous ex¬ 
ertions of Dr. Livingstone, will probably furnish additional evi¬ 
dence of the relationship between the inhabitants of Madagascar 
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