Chapter XII: Appendix

_A Vocabulary of the Short Phrases of the Houssa Tongue._

_English._ _Houssa._

One Deah.

Two Bew.

Three Booko.

Four Foodo.

Five Beaha

Six Shedah.

Seven Buckevee.

Eight Togus.

Nine Farra.

Ten Gomma.

Eleven Gommashadeah.

Twelve Gommashabew.

Thirteen Gommashahooko.

Fourteen Gommashafoodo.

Fifteen Gommashabeah.

Sixteen Gommashashidah.

Seventeen Gommashabuckwee.

Eighteen Gommashatogus.

Nineteen Gommashatarra.

Twenty Ashareen.

Thirty Thallateen.

Forty Harbine.

Fifty Humpseen.

Sixty Setteen.

Seventy Sabine.

Eighty Tissine.

Ninety Tamaneene.

One Hundred Duree.

One Thousand Zumbrudayah.

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One day Gunah deah.

One month Wâtah deah.

This minute Yonsoo.

Silver Zinnariyea.

Gold Hasraffa.

Brass Becken Murraffee.

Beads Dushee.

Salt Gesharie.

A woman’s girdle Zanié.

A rogue Mogue.

The sun Ramah.

The moon Wâttah.

The stars Dula.

Morning De Saffey.

Noon Rangah.

Night Nooway.

Day Yow.

A box Sundook.

Wild (a.) Dowah.

An antelope Naming.

A needle Allurah.

A looking glass Mydubee.

A knife Hooker.

A sword Tacobee.

A gun Bindegah.

Curdled milk squeezed and dried Chuckkumarra.
in the sun—a kind of cheese

To-morrow morning early Sigovey da Saffey.

Go on as fast as you can for Tuffee muzzah muzzah acqui mugo
there are robbers in the path chiken talabah.

Sweep the house Bally gidah.

Wash my shirt Wankee regar.

Mix a little flour and water Damma mossa fouro du boo.

Bring my mat into the hut Kow shimpidah chiken giddah.

Any river Golabee.

The river Niger Golabee Quarra.

Put the baggage on the camel Sadu kiah besah du ba comme.

A wild hog Mugen dowah.

Soldiers of the Sultan Doggalee du Sulakee.

The Sultan’s slaves Bowah de Sulakee.

I am going to my house Ne tuffee giddah.

There are fine horses for sale Acqui dorkee nuggree chikeen
in the market caswâh.

What’s the news? Ah fiel—ah bour on donnaih.

Nothing particular, all’s well Baboo coome sa laf fare.

There is war on the road near Acqui yiki chikeen tulabah couso
the city of Kano bernee Kano.

Against whom are the people of Menenee mutanee birnee Kano yikee
Kano fighting? Against the sons yon zu duncollen Caffrée?
of dogs and unbelievers?

Who’s there Maneni acka?

I do not know Ba sanni ba.

Tell him that I should like to Fuddee moossa nee shee nashá
see him dubàah.

What’s this town called? Whaso neen du bernee?

It is the town of Catshenah Bernee Catsheenah.

O dear, O dear, O dear, it’s Ki, ki, ki, zafey yow.
very warm to-day

I will take a ride in the East Ni how dorkee tuffee gubu Sigovey.
to-morrow

How many days’ journey is it Quanah nowah ranah acka bernee
from hence to Kano Kano?

There is much water in the path Acqui rowah chikeen talabah
daywowa.

THE END.

* * * * *
J. B. NICHOLS AND SON,
25, Parliament Street.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 1: Thus the hieroglyphical message of the Scythian Ambassador, who, without making any comment, presented Darius with five arrows, a bird, a frog, and a mouse, is pretty generally known. The Chief of the Narraghanset Indians also made himself understood, by sending the first settlers of New England a rattlesnake’s skin stuffed with arrows. This was answered as intelligibly by the settlers returning the same skin filled with powder and bullets.]

[Footnote 2: A venerable man in Wow Wow, whose sable locks had changed to grey, a sure sign, amongst the Africans, either of severe distress or extreme old age.]

[Footnote 3: Nasarah Curramee (Little Christian), an appellation by which I was generally known in Africa, on account of my diminutive stature.]

[Footnote 4: A shrub from the seeds of which the natives extract the deadly venom in which the points of their arrows are invariably dipped.]

[Footnote 5: BEBBO.—Great or big white man. Captain Clapperton was generally known in Africa as _bebba_; and I, a _curramee_ (little).]

[Footnote 6: The inhabitants of Katunga, and indeed all the Yaribeans, are persuaded that when the dead awake from their long sleep, they will need companions and servants in the other world; and, on the strength of this belief, at the burial of any person of consequence, many of his friends swallow poison, and, with a number of slaves that are slain for the purpose, are inhumed in the same grave as the deceased.]

[Footnote 7: Neither Mansolah, nor any of his subjects, would believe but that Captain Clapperton came to his death by violent means.]

[Footnote 8: Seamen, when captured by pirates, are sometimes compelled to walk blindfolded from a board into the sea, and so left to perish. This is termed “walking the plank.”]

[Footnote 9: Captain _Laing_, and not “Morrison,” as mentioned by mistake in my printed Journal, conveyed me from Badagry; and I take this opportunity of expressing my deep sense of gratitude to that gentleman, for the very handsome treatment I received at his hands, and the truly British feeling he displayed after receiving me on board his vessel.]

Transcriber's note:

pg 11 Changed: "he got into open gronnd" to: "ground"

pg 14 Changed: "as in all ropical countries" to: "tropical"

pg 21 Changed: "he money concerns of the" to: "the money"

pg 45 Changed: "the diappointed Falatahs boasted" to: "disappointed"

pg 46 Changed: "that they they did not think it worth while" to:
"that they did"

pg 88 Changed: "owing to the illnesss of" to: "illness"

pg 104 Changed: "it will he recollected Pasko" to: "be"

pg 176 Added missing line: "stirrups of his horse’s saddle, is
thrown from its back, and" after: "crossing a river, in the"

pg 202 Changed: "Ebo did not uage his request" to: "urge"

pg 207 Changed: "which state it is is hawked through" to: "it is
hawked"

pg 258 Changed: "who, for a ong season" to: "long"

pg 291 Changed: "Abox" to: "A box"

pg 293 Changed: "a ride in thee East" to: "the"