great address in’ keeping «peaceJ and amity with their fierce
neighbours, anderen with the Galla.
A similar raic^jfiht( of the Sumali is to bp'.found in a memoir
communicated by Mr. Bird to the Royal Geographical
Society-# The author;descfibe^®%;,Sumali traders
from Barbara: He saysfte their fite# Tegular features, their
ringlèts of*,soft hair, artificially telfShged lo a flaxen ^b|our,
and allowed*to flow negligently around tlillir’shoulders, present
a contrast to the jet-blac%e,omplexions', and woolly hair
of the Sühailis from Ajan.” He adds«'-“ Thé Sumalis are yet
mpre lightly clad than the Arabs,* and in addition’to a wrapper
for the loins, haver-only a thin white sheet thrown'negligently
around their shoulders.
It Alight' be suspected Trom the description of the physical
characters of thd^hmiÉI, that they* are emigrants- from India,
as Professor Rjtfer cohjectures the inhabitants in'general^pf
the Barbaric coast of eastern Africa to be. But it^seems most
probable that ThètSumali are-only civilized or improved Galla.
The following list of words, similar in the dialects'of the
southern Galla and the Sumali, render'd probable that thëSe
languages are cognate, since the words are not generally such
a§ nations borrow from their neighbours in the progress,'of
civilization.
11 Z. comparative Vocabulary of the Galla, Sumali, and
Numerals.
Danhkii languages.
, S U M A L I . G A L L A . D A N A K I L .
1. k ’ OW to ko. inni-ke
2. leb ’ba lum ma dum meh
3. sud ’dé I; sed de sud de o
4. af four af foor fe re
ö. shan shun ko no you
6. 1’ éh ja le hé ye
7 . t’dubbah toor bah * mei’ né ne
8. se deid sed dét bé. bä ra
9. sug-gal sag gül '■> ;%se ga la
10. tubbän koo dun thub ban
11. kowe tubbän kooda tok thub ban ketea
12. lebbe a kooda lum ma thubban ke lummeh
tubban
* Observations on die coast of Arabia and the shores of the Red Sea. Geog.
Joum. vbl. iv. p. 194.
•+ The portrait of a S6m41i or Somauli from one of the figures in the atlas to
Lord Valentia’s Travels will be found in the fallowing plate.
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