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at Corisco [[strikethrough]] bad [[/strikethrough]] bay, only eight miles north of the Gabon, should be "totally different" from that of the latter place. That the [[strikethrough]]l[[/strikethrough]] dialect of Cape Lopez Gonsalvo is similar to that of Congo maybe inferred from a comparison of a few words ^[[of the former]] given by Vater, with the corresponding ones in the latter -- [[a table with three columns]] [[first column -- English]] Woman Boat to eat to go [[second column]]Cape L. G. Mokendo [[l?]]ongo [[strikethrough]]kukɑ[[/strikethrough]] kōriɑ quendo [[third column]]Congo (or Cɑssɑn[[g?]]i) mukētu, ke'ntu ulūngu kūliɑ kwe'ndɑ The southern boundary cannot be so accurately defined; a tract of country, nearly a desert, extends between the southern part of Benguela & the territory of the Hottentots. On the opposite coast of Africa, the Sowɑi'el, the northernmost of the Mozambique tribes, live in the neighborhood of Magadoxo in lat. 1 degree north (Salt's Travels in Abyssinia, App. p.3). The Koussas [[strikethrough]] a southernmost [[/strikethrough]] ^[[or proper]] Caffres are placed in W. J. Burchell's Map of Southern Af[[strikethrough]f[[/strikethrough]rica, as far north as Lat. 33 degrees. In order to show the similarity existing between the vocabularies of the different tribes inhabiting this vast region, it has seemed best to follow the usual plan of selecting a [[strikethrough]] short [[/strikethrough]] list of those words which must be [[underline]]radical[[/underline]] in every language - or [[strikethrough]][[in?]][[/strikethrough]] which no native would [[every ?]] [[strikethrough]]transfer[[/strikethrough]] ^[[borrow]] from the language of their neighbors. The ^[[names of the]] parts of the ^[[human]] body, of the most common objects of sense, the simple numerals, & the like are generally preferred. [[strikethrough]]If an evident resemblance (for[[/strikethrough]] [[strikethrough]]If an evident resemble example existed throughout a certain class of language in the following words[[/strikethrough]] No one would hesitate in ascribing ^[[a common origin to a to a [[strikethrough]] whole [[/strikethrough]] class of languages [[strikethrough]] to the [[/strikethrough]] ^[[throughout which an evident resemblance]] [[strikethrough]] whole class a common origin [[/strikethrough]]]] existed in the following terms -- [[The following terms are listed in six columns of six items each]] (1. God 2. Heaven 3. Man 4. Woman 5. Child 6. Father 7. Mother 8. Head 9. Hair 10. Eye 11. Eyes 12. Ear; ^[[or]] ears 13. Nose 14. Teeth 15. Tongue 16. Heart 17. Hen [[strikethrough]] Snake [[/strikethrough]] 18. Egg, ^[[or]] eggs 19. snake 20. tree 21. Sun 22. Moon 23. Rain 24. Land 25. Water 26. Fire 27. House 28. dead 29. to eat 30. to drink 31. One 32. Two 33. Three 34. Four 35. Five 36. Ten