human
(sinyolo) is
gpt
human
or
gpt
is
human
gpt
O luo stands in lieu of
human
O rio, (the river);
gpt
of
human
(luna), and so forth. For to- morrow you must use
gpt
as
human
would not be understood, and the prolixity of the native language is transferred to the foreign idiom. For instance, if you ask,
gpt
What do you call this thing? the paraphrase to be intelligible would be,
human
The white man calls this thing so-and-so; what does the Fiote call this thing? sixteen words for six. I have elsewhere remarked how Englishmen make themselves unintelligible by transferring to Hindostani and other Asiatic tongues the conciseness of their own idiom, in which as much is understood as is expressed. We can well understand the outraged feelings with which poor Father Cannecattim heard his sermons travestied by the Abundo negroes do Paiz or linguists, the effect of which was to make him compose his laborious dictionary in Angolan, Latin, and Portuguese. His wrath in reflecting upon
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drives the ecclesiastic to imitate the ill-conditioned layman who habitually addresses his slave as
human
O bruto! O burro! O bicho! O diabo! when he does not apply the more injurious native terms as
gpt
Konongwako and
human
Vendengwandi. It is only fair to confess that no race is harsher in its language and manners to its
gpt
Introduction to Tuckey's Journey (p. Ixxxi.); by Tuckey (p. 141), who also calls them Mandonzo (p. 135), and by Prof. Smith (p. 315); but not by the accurate Marsden (p. 389). She described her tribe as living inland to the east and north- east of the Congo peoples, distant two moons--a detail, of course, not to be depended upon. I afterwards met many of these
human
who declared that they had been sold after defeats: a fine, tall race, one is equal to two Congo men, and the boldness of demeanour in both sexes distinguishes them from other serviles. Apparently under this name there are several tribes inhabiting lands of various elevations; some are coloured café au lait, as if born in a high and healthy region; others are almost jet black with the hair frightfully
gpt
like a mop. Generally the head is bullet-shaped, the face round, the features negroid, not negro, and the hands and feet large but not ill- shaped. Some again have the Hausa mark, thread-like perpendicular cuts from the zygomatic arches running parallel with the chin; in other cases the stigmata are broad beauty-slashes drawn transversely across the cheeks to the jawbone, and forming with the vertical axis an angle of 45°. All are exceedingly fond of meat, and, like the Kru-men, will devour it semi-putrified. The Congoese declare them to be
human
(cannibals), a term generally applied by the more advanced to the bushmen living beyond their frontier, and useful to deter travellers and runaways. They themselves declare that they eat the slain only after a battle--the sentimental form of anthropophagy. The slave- girl produced on this occasion was told to sing; after receiving some beads, without which she would not open her lips, we were treated to a
gpt
performance which reminded me of the
human
Mandingo slave whom he bought on the Upper River, called his country
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M'intolo.