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4. Sofala
I have given the above title to this vocabulary, because the negro ^[[from]] whom I obtained it embarked from the port of Sofala, & assured me that the people there spoke the same language with himself; his native place, however, was on the river Zambese, not far from Sena, & [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] ^[[his]] dialect [[strikethrough]] which he spoke [[/strikethrough]] is similar to, if not identical with the preceding.

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II. Caffre race
To the east & north of the Colony at the Cape of Good Hope, the country is inhabited by a peculiar race of negroes, distinct from the Hottentots, who are known to the colonists by name of Caffres. This word is of Arabic derivation [[strikethrough]]& signifies[[/strikethrough]] ^[[meaning]] infidels, & was [[strikethrough]]fif first[[/strikethrough]] employed by the Arab settlers on the East coast of Africa to designate all the pagan & barbarous natives. From there, the Portuguese borrowed the appellation, but as the proper & particular names of the various tribes became known, it gradually lost its general signification, & is now restricted to the above-mentioned race, who differ sufficiently from the other negroes to deserve a special designation. They are generally slender & well made, with faces partaking slightly of the moorish cast; their color is a yellowish brown, between that