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Travels through Central Africa to Timbuctoo; and across the Great Desert, to Morocco, performed in the years 1824-1828, Vol. 2 (of 2)

Note 149 — Chapter II

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M. Caillié has observed that the word mountain is expressed by kong. Mungo Park has taken a generic term for the name of a particular mountain; Park himself here confirms my observations, by giving the word konko. I may add that the term for head is koung in Mandingo; and there is an analogy in the sense.—E. J.

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