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Of this language their is a grammar & [[strikethrough]] Doc [[/strikethrough]] Dictionary, by a Portuguese missionary
which is quoted by Vater, in the Mithridates.
The following Vocabulary was obtained merely for the purpose of comparison.

Vocabulary.
IV. Angola or Kasanji
The Angola & the Cassangi [[strikethrough]] slaves [[/strikethrough]] ^[[negroes]] are considered in Rio as ^[[of]] different nations, but their lang[[strikethrough]]ula[[/strikethrough]]^[[uages]] are the same, with hardly a dialectical difference. From the best information I was able to obtain, I am inclined to believe that the only distinction between them is that the Angolas are under the domination of the Portuguese government, [[strikethrough]] estable [[/strikethrough]] & the Cassangis are the free natives in the interior. The former inhabit a narrow province ^[[from 60 to 80 miles in width,]] [[strikethrough]][[?]][[/strikethrough]] between the two rivers Dande' & Cuenza, & extending inland something more than 100 leagues, or as [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] far as the Portuguese power can make itself felt; the latter, commencing at this point, are spread over a large territory in the interior of the continent. One of the natives stated the time it took to go from Loanda - the Portuguese sea-port - to Kasanji - at [[underline]] three [[/underline]] months, & to return [[underline]] two [[/underline]], the former journey, [[strikethrough]] being partly [[/strikethrough]] as far as it was made in boats, being against the stream.
This language is extremely soft in its pronunciation. Some of the natives found great difficulty in enunciating ^[[sounds of]] the Portuguese, - saying balaba for barba, cilali for cidada; [[strikethrough]] [[underline]]grande[[/underline]] was tra [[/strikethrough]] "[[underline]]pasarinho grande" large[[strikethrough]]r[[/strikethrough]] bird [[/underline]], was transformed into "kɑsɑlinyɑ ngɑlɑ:nje."
It is deserving of remark that though the Angola & Kasanji spoke exactly the same language, yet [[strikethrough]] between two [[/strikethrough]] there was considerable difference between the dialects of two Angolas, the one from Loanda on the coast, the other from Mbaka or Ambacca about three hundred miles in the interior.
Vocabulary.
Benguelɑ or Bengērɑ.
[[strikethrough]]The[[/strikethrough]]
The extensive territory bounded in the north by the river Kuanza in latitude 9 degrees 20 minutes S, on the coast by the Atlantic, in the south the great