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The position of most of the places in his country mentioned by the Mina from whom I obtained the vocabulary [[strikethrough]]agree with[[/strikethrough]] correspond with the above description. He embarked ^[[at]] Ekō or Ikō which I take to be the part of Kona near the eastern mouth of the Quarra, in the Gulf of Biafra. His native place was Ibore, which he said was four days [[strikethrough]]d[[/strikethrough]] journey from Iko; & in Brice's large map of Africa I find a place called Boring laid down about two hundred miles NE of Kona. When I asked him what nations were accustomed to make war with his own, he named the Īfē as the most powerful; these I presume to be the Nouffie or Nūfē, situated [[strikethrough]]north of[[/strikethrough]] between the Eyō & the Hɑusɑ:. Ebu (Eboe) he said was a great market-town five days journey from his country; it is in fact a port near the mouth of the Quarra, two hundred & fifty miles ESE of Boring.

As I have before remarked, the [[strikethrough]]enou el enounce[[/strikethrough]] sound of the language was harsh in the extreme. The words are generally dissyllabic, & there was one peculiarity in the pronunciation worthy of remark. In the majority of words the accent was ^[[placed]] on the last syllable, & in this case [[strikethrough]]the[[/strikethrough]] it [[invariably ?]] received the rising inflective, while [[strikethrough]in[/strikethrough]] those words of which the penultimate was accented, were pronounced with the falling inflection. [[strikethrough]]The[[/strikethrough]] In consequence of this [[strikethrough]][[?]] was[[/strikethrough]] ^[[peculiarity]] the language, when spoken, had a singsong tone, not unlike that of the Chinese. The want of grammatical inflections is another point in which it resembles the same language.

Vocabulary.
[[notation -- 4 x marks]]
II. Nations of Southern Africa.
A. Western Coast.
[[strikethrough]]1. Kambinda or Loango.[[/strikethrough]]
All the natives of this part of the [[strikethrough]]country[[/strikethrough]] continent who [[strikethrough]]I examined[[/strikethrough]] ^[[came under my examination]] had the ^[[usual]] forms & features which [[strikethrough]]I[[/strikethrough]] we are accustomed to associate with our idea of the negro. They were in general short, [[clumsily?]] built with narrow foreheads, flat noses, protruding jaws ^[[& teeth]], [[strikethrough]][[? ?ing]][[/strikethrough]] chins ^[[sloping backward]], & prominent cheekbones. The hair was woolly, & the color a very dark amber. In character they differ little from their descendants in North America; being, like them, [[strikethrough]]l[[/strikethrough]] indolent, thoughtless, licentious, & [[strikethrough]][[?]]issive[[/strikethrough]] abject -- of a disposition