Note 145 — Chapter II
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I have added within parentheses the words given by Mungo Park to shew the frequent agreement between the two travellers, the differences arise from the diversity of the countries through which they travelled.
It is to be regretted that travellers, when collecting the words of an unknown language, do not select peculiar and characteristic terms: it would be easier, by following this method of comparing the different idioms, to discover their family resemblance or their original dissimilarity. With this view, I have formed a rather extended specimen of a vocabulary principally for the use of travellers in Africa, with a methodic mode of interrogation (See Atlas Ethn. de M. Ad. Balbi, page xlviij).
I have also formed a collection of vocabularies of more than thirty idioms of Northern Africa, which may serve as a second part of the Vocabulaire des Voyageurs.—E. J.