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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