A highly interesting account is given of this almost unknown race by the Rev. Thomas Wakefield in his ‘Footprints in Eastern Africa, or Notes of a Visit to the Southern Gallas’ (London, Reed. 1866, pp. 76- 79). We are told that ‘the Gálas never stab a Mlangúlo, but removing the blades of their spears, they thrash him to death with the shafts or handles:’ moreover, that ‘the Walangúlo approach a Gála on their knees, crying, “tiririsho! tiririsho! tiririsho!” until their greeting is acknowledged by a grunt from their lord or by the latter spitting out a little saliva!’ Footnote 105: The curious reader will find it in the Travels of Marco Polo (chap. xxxvii. note 1, p. 432, of Bohn’s Antiquarian Library). Footnote 106: Mr Cooley (Geog. 37) tells us that ‘Conda, in Congoese and also in Sawahili, means hill.’ It certainly does not in Zanzibar, where Konda is an adjective, lean or thin. Konde means the fist (in Arabic جِمع and Khonde is applied to a Shamba or plantation. Footnote 107: M. Guillain (Part II. 108) calls the preliminary ceremony ‘Outoumba,’ and I cannot help thinking that he was grossly ‘sold’ by some exceedingly impudent interpreter. Footnote 108: The areca-nut is called in Arabic Fofal, and in Kisawahili Popo: the betel-nut, Tambul and Tambuli, and the lime Nurah and Choka. Footnote 109: This is repeated by my friend (p. 59, The Idol in Horeb: Evidence that the golden image at Mount Sinai was a cone, and not a calf. London: Tinsleys, 1871), who, however, informs us that in 1846 Major, now Sir Henry, Rawlinson agreed with him in saying that, ‘the class of languages to which the designation Semitic or Semitish is properly applicable is that comprising the whole of the aboriginal languages of Asia, Polynesia, and America.’ This latter continent, however, should not have been included without proofs, and hitherto we have failed to find them. Footnote 110: Grammar of the Baĕlele language, &c., by the Missionaries of the A. B. C. F. M. Gaboon Station, Western Africa. New York: Pratt, 1854. Also Grammar of the Mpongwe language, &c., by the same. New York: Snowdon and Pratt, 1847. Footnote 111: A Vocabulary of the Malemba and Embomma Languages. (Appendix I. Tuckey’s Expedition to the River Zaire. London: Murray, 1818.) Also Fr. B. M. de Cannecatim’s Diccionario da Lingua Bunda. Lisboa, 1804. Footnote 112: When travelling in East Africa I took as a base the vocabulary of Catherine of Russia, and filled it up with five dialects, viz., those of the Sawahil, Uzaramo, Khutu, Usagara, and Unyamwezi. Footnote 113: In these days, however, we cannot say, with the Opener of Inner Africa (p. 123), ‘The Nilotic family of languages nowhere extends into the basin of the Nile.’ Footnote 114: I have sketched the distinguishing points of the Hamitic tongues in my Preface (p. xxii.) to ‘Wit and Wisdom from West Africa’ (London: Tinsleys, 1865).