Note 206 — Chapter V
Hugh J. C. Beavan translation
“The sound of their voice resembles sighing.” “Their language resembles the clucking of a turkey.” Compare White, Account of the regular gradation of Man, p. 67, London, 1799. Appleyard, The Kafir Language, p. 3, 8vo, King William’s Town, 1850. Morel, Traité des Dégénérescences de l’espèce humaine, p. 42, Paris, 1857. “The Kafirs have adopted some of the inflexions in use among their neighbours, but as a simple ornament to their speech, without attributing any special signification to these ‘cluckings.’”—Is. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (Correspondence).