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				<title>Letter to John Kirk 2</title>
                <title type="alternative">Letter to John Kirk 2, 14 February 1865</title>
				<author xml:id="DL">Livingstone, David, 1813-1873</author>
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				<pubPlace>London</pubPlace>
				<date>2008-01-25</date>
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				<bibl xml:id="shelfmark">National Library of Scotland; Acc. 9942, ff. 15r-17v</bibl>
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				<bibl xml:id="recipient"><persName>Kirk, John 2, 1832-1922</persName></bibl>
				<bibl xml:id="date"><date when="1865-02-14">14 February 1865</date></bibl>
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				<date>2008-01-25</date>
				<name xml:id="SM">Sharon Messenger</name>Initial Transcription by Sharon Messenger
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				<date>2008-04-12</date>
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<lb/><p><space extent="1" unit="words"/><space extent="1" unit="chars"/><placeName>Newstead Abbey</placeName></p>
<lb/><p rend="center"><space extent="1" unit="words"/><space extent="2" unit="chars"/>14 Feby 1865 </p>
<lb/>
<lb/><p rend="no-indent">My Dear <persName>Kirk</persName></p>
<lb/><p><space extent="1" unit="words"/><persName>D<hi rend="sup underline">r</hi> Peters</persName> might as 
<lb/>well come down gracefully 
<lb/>and to help him you might 
<lb/>say that on employing 
<lb/>a native whose language 
<lb/>I knew as well as any 
<lb/>Portuguese knows the 
<lb/>dialects of <placeName>Tette</placeName>, to enquire 
<lb/>the name of a mountain 
<lb/>he replied "They call it 
<lb/>Kaia or as <persName>D<hi rend="sup underline">r</hi> Peters</persName>
<lb/>spells it caiia - and I 
<lb/>put that down as the 
<lb/>name of the mountain 
<lb/>referred to. </p>

	<pb n="0002" facs="liv_002193_0002"/><!--pb/@n='15v'-->
<lb/><p>It is no disgrace to a man 
<lb/>to make a mistake of the 
<lb/>kind. <persName>M<hi rend="sup underline">r</hi> Moffat</persName> has 
<lb/>been collecting words 
<lb/>in the Sechuana language 
<lb/>for the last 43 years - 
<lb/>and finds new ones 
<lb/>every week. In eight 
<lb/>years I had upwards 
<lb/>of seven thousand and 
<lb/>I rejected many hundreds 
<lb/>either as uncouth or 
<lb/>to me quite useless. </p>
<lb/><p rend="no-indent">Who but a mad philologist 
<lb/>would collect at least 
<lb/>a score for the different 
<lb/>parts or modes of 
<lb/>walking as erect - stooping 
<lb/>leaning backwards 

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<lb/>- sideways - from side to 
<lb/>- side - wriggling- lifting 
<lb/>the feet high - <unclear cert="low">or</unclear> very 
<lb/>straight - slouching 
<lb/>swaggering. I think 
<lb/>there were eleven 
<lb/>names for a lion - 
<lb/>and no end of words 
<lb/>meaning different 
<lb/>shades of fools. <persName>D<hi rend="sup underline">r</hi>
<lb/>Peters<reg>'</reg></persName> vocabularies 
<lb/>are wonderful on 
<lb/>account of their gross 
<lb/>inaccuracies and 
<lb/>the ability displayed 
<lb/>by <persName>D<hi rend="sup underline">r</hi> Bleek</persName> in making 
<lb/>so good a use of such 
<lb/>a jumble as they 
<w>con-<lb break="no"/>tain.</w><choice><reg>T</reg><orig>t</orig></choice>here is scarcely a 
<lb/>page but contains as gross 

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<lb/><add place="inspace">mistakes as this and one sees the mistakes are
<lb/>made by the 
<lb/>Portuguese element 
<lb/><hi rend="underline">employed</hi></add>
<lb/>The D<hi rend="sup underline">r</hi> makes a bad 
<lb/>shot with pēnu, seeing 
<lb/>it is never pronounced 
<lb/>painoo - and does not 
<lb/>mean (except inferentially) 
<lb/>"I don<reg>'</reg>t know." <choice><reg>T</reg><orig>t</orig></choice>he <hi rend="underline">e</hi> is 
<lb/>the same as in our word 
<lb/>h<hi rend="underline">e</hi>n - and the word is 
<lb/>used as we do the words 
<lb/><hi rend="underline">perhaps</hi> - <hi rend="underline">it may be</hi> - 
<lb/><hi rend="underline">possibly</hi> - Is this the 
<lb/>way, or is this right, 
<lb/><hi rend="underline">panic</hi> - perhaps it is - 
<lb/>inferentially of course 
<lb/>it is, I don<reg>'</reg>t know - 
<lb/>The majority of <placeName>Tette</placeName>
<lb/>fouls live in the huts 
<lb/>of the people &amp; not on perches<reg>.</reg>

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<lb/>I cannot recollect two 
<lb/>aá's in any native 
<lb/>word but <hi rend="underline">penu</hi>, they <add place="above">may</add> exist<reg>.</reg></p>
<lb/><p rend="no-indent">You will see whether 
<lb/>it has been a misprint 
<lb/>by consulting <persName>Bleek<reg>'</reg>s</persName>
<lb/>book. </p>
<lb/><p rend="no-indent"><persName>M<hi rend="sup">r</hi> Webb</persName> gave me yours 
<lb/>to answer about the 
<lb/>words - and you may 
<lb/>quote me if you like - </p>
<lb/><p rend="no-indent">I remember the hill 
<lb/>very well - I say a 
<lb/>conical hill from which 
<lb/>a large piece had peeled 
<lb/>off granitic fashion 
<lb/>like a portion of the 
<lb/>flake of an onion - but 
<lb/>I don<reg>'</reg>t know the proper 

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<lb/>word for <hi rend="underline">flake</hi><reg>.</reg></p>
<lb/><p rend="no-indent"><placeName>Mosambique</placeName> won<reg>'</reg>t 
<lb/>do but <placeName>Bambatook</placeName>
<lb/>bay would I think - 
<lb/>and as soon as I hear 
<lb/>from <persName>Sir Roderick</persName>
<lb/>will write to <persName>Lord 
<lb/>Russell</persName> and make 
<lb/>use of <persName>Col<reg>.</reg> Playfair<reg>'</reg>s</persName>
<lb/>absence as an argument<reg>.</reg>
<lb/>I think you had better 
<lb/>write to <persName>Dalhousie</persName> too<reg>.</reg></p>
<lb/><p rend="no-indent">Thanks for your 
<lb/>thoughts about <persName>Tom</persName>
<lb/>I send <persName>D<hi rend="sup underline">r</hi> Loudon<reg>'</reg>s</persName>
<lb/>letter and write  a note 
<lb/>today to <persName>D<hi rend="sup underline">r</hi> Watson</persName><reg>.</reg></p>
			
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