practised navigation; could find their way from Africa to the
Canaries; but many seas have been traversed by rude and even
by savage people under circumstances apparently still more
unfavourable: and the first population of many countries, notwithstanding
all that has been said to the contrary by some
late writers, has certainly been spread along the sea-coasts and
across seas, for traversing which the races of men thus dispersed
appearto have been in general but ill provided.. Of
the analogies discovered in the languages of the Guanches
and the Berbers, the following compendious table, given
by Bitter, will be a sufficient example.
BERBER OR SHUX.UH. GUANCHES.
Water . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Anam, Amen ......... .......... Aenum, Ahemon.
Heaven .v r r r ................ Tigot, pi. Tigotan ......... . Tigot, pi. Titogan.
God ............................ . M’Kum................................, Acoran.
Priest..................... . . . . . Saquair .. ........................... Faycayg.
Temple......................... .. Talmogaren ................... .. . Almogaren.
Houses......................... .. Tigamin ....................... ■. . Tamogitin.
Place of punishment . . .Tagarer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tagarer.
Captain...................... • . Kabira .............................. .Kaheheira.
Mountain..................... .Aya, Dynna, Athraar . . . .Aya, Dyrma, Thenar.
Deep valley 1. Douwaman ............... .. .Adeyhaman. '
Barley ........... ............ . .Tezezreat, Tomzeen......... . Tezzezes, Temasen.
Wheat (Tritkum of the Romans.) 5 Trissa in Lanzerote.
1 1 Trieben in Teneriffe.
Palm-tree ....................... Taginast .......................... . Taginast e.
A rush b asket..........., . .Carian ......................... . . . Car i anas.
Green figs ................... j.. Akermuse......................... .Archormase.
Powdered barley . . . . . .Ahoren.............................. .Ahoren.
Flour of barley in oil. .. Azamittan ..................... . A zom otan.
Gnnf . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Ara .................................. .Ara.
Sheep . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Thikhsi, Ana ................. . Tihaxan, Ana.
Pig ............... .. Tamouren......................... . Tämacen.
Milk .................. .. . Acho . . .« ( Ano.
Î Achemen in Gomera.
For further information on the history of the Guanches,
see Vater,Mithridates, 3. th. 1. abtheil, p. 59 ; Glass’s History
of the Canary Islands ; Golberry’s Voyage en Afrique, tom. i. ;
Jackson’s Account of Maroco ; Bitter’s Erdkunde, Blumen-
bach’s Decad. Cranior 5 ; Hornemann’s Travels ; Lawrence’s
Lectures, p. 346 ; M. De Humboldt’s Voy. aux Terr. Equin,
tom. l i | M. Bory de St. Vincent’s Hist* des Iles Fortunées.
S e c t io n VIII.—* -0 / the Proof of Affinity, founded on re-
' semblânèë : of Language, between different Branches of
the Atlantic Race. Inquiry into the probable Relations of
this Racé ibith others in Africa and, in Europe.
- I shall, ,kr this section,' -lay before tóy readers some specie
mens of the idi©4tos} of different Berber races; illustrative of
the affinity discovered between their languages ; • and to fhem
I- Shall add, arranged, in parallel-columns in order '^exhibit
the whole/ in one view, similarièollections of words from those
idioms either in Africa or in Europe, in which it may seenót
most probable that resemblance will be found io,the Berber-
speech. These are, in Europe, the Basque, which,s^ecording to
historicaLtestimony, was’once’spoken aïpng.èhe northern C^tsfr
of the Mediterranean, from the: Atlantic’to SicHyj andin Africa;
the Tibfeo,* the Coptic or Egyptian, the Barâbra,' Berberin or
Nubian, and the Amharaor Western Abyssinian language-: 'J
t - The -languages above mentioned comprise à ! the African
dialects now within reach, to which itjseéms in*any degree
probable - that -the Berber may have been related.: They are
spoken either in the low countries.interveni^Mbetween the
-great Ttable-lands - dft Atlantic« • and of central Africa,; of. in
the northern and projecting bordér^tbf the latter country:
In order tor-complete the ééries of bordering.-ianguages from
east to west, it would be necèsiary .ta^éd^ésiniens bf the
diedeets of Mdan^or the northern tract of Negroïâbd ; but.it
is hardly within probability, that any extensive delations'of
affinity will be discovered between.the lhngua^en^&absolute
Negro tribes and the Berber idiom, and specimens-of these
Sûdanian dialects will find. their place in ' a succeeding
chapter, so that the reader, whbiisK-desirpus of domg- so, will
have an opportunity of collating them'with- the<-vocabularies
in the present sections d
It is to be regretted, that several laquages, 'formerly
spoken on the coast-of the Mediterranean and in the islands
of that inland sea, have become extinct without leaving any
vestiges. From these we might otherwise^ have % defected
proofs of the African origin of some European nations. As