NOTE D.-Page 40. There is every reason for believing that there is no language in Africa so extensively spoken as that of the Bechuana. I have seen slaves which had been brought from Mozambique, and whose country, according to their description, lay far to the north of that place, who though kidnapped in their childhood, thirty or forty years before, instantly recognized their mother tongue in the Bechuana language. Other facts might be mentioned to point out a radical identity of language over a vast extent of country. NOTE E.-Page 40. The majority of the population of Griqua Town have of late years been Bechuanas. NOTE F.-Page 41. The Bechuanas exhibit very few of the peculiarities of the negro race. Their features approach much more to the European or Asiatic model. Many athletic and well formed, and some exceedingly handsome, though their hair be woolly and their general colour dark brown. I have seen many specimens of the negro languages on the west coast, but could trace no similarity whatever between any of them and the Bechuana language. W. Tyler, Printer, 5, Bolt-court, London. WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE PRESENT STATE OF THE TRANSLATIONS OF THE BY EDWARD STEANE. LONDON: THOMAS WARD AND CO., PATERNOSTER-ROW; BIRMINGHAM, J. W. SHOWELL; OXFORD, H. ALDEN. 5 TO THE Committee of the Baptist Missionary Society THE FOLLOWING DISCOURSE IS INSCRIBED, AS A TRIBUTE OF AFFECTIONATE ESTEEM TO THE MEMORY OF ONE OF THEIR MOST EMINENT MISSIONARIES, AND OF CHRISTIAN SYMPATHY WITH THEM UNDER THE LOSS THEY HAVE SUSTAINED IN HIS DECEASE, BY HIS FELLOW-SERVANT AND COADJUTOR, THE AUTHOR. |