gh, oriental guttural sound (_Dagh_, _Ghazi_). kh, oriental guttural sound (_Khan_). v, is always soft; not to be used to give the sound of _f_. When a vowel is to be pronounced clear and open the following consonant will be doubled: (_Tanna_, _Mekka_, _Bonny_). To lengthen a vowel sound, it will not be doubled, but if the vowel is repeated each will be pronounced separately (_Nuuluha_, _Oosima_). But one accent (') will be used to indicate if particularly necessary, that is, in exceptional cases, the syllable on which stress is to be laid (_Matupí_). RUSSIAN-ENGLISH. [Illustration: table of conversion of Russian letters to English letters] ENGLISH-RUSSIAN. [Illustration: table of conversion of English letters to Russian letters] End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The National Geographic Magazine, Vol. II., No. 4, August, 1890, by Various