The more I had seen of this young couple, the more had my sympa-
thies become interested in their favor, and the better satisfied did I feel
with the relation I had assumed towards them. On their part, every look
and action evinced the profoundest sense of gratitude and obligation ;
and their whole deportment continually astonished me with evidences of
delicacy, refinement, and mental cultivation far beyond what I had been
prepared to expect. Kaloolah, in particular, evinced the most surprising
quickness of comprehension — mastering a large number of English phrases
with a readiness and tenacity of memory that very far surpassed my most
strenuous efforts in the acquisition of her own tongue. My progress, how-
ever, was not slow, and I knew not which to admire most, her tact as a
teacher, or her quickness as a pupil. Both she and her brother wrote
their language with apparent ease, in characters somewhat resembling the
Hebrew, but arranged after the style called Bousirophedon, or alternately
from left to right and from right to left. I regretted exceedingly, that
my knowledge of the Hebrew extended only to the letters of the
language, and that I was unable to compare the words and grammatical
forms.
With the aid of their language, the Congo, a few words of English,
and Kaloolah's expressive pantomime, I was soon able to understand the
main points of their interesting story.
The Gerboo Blanda, I found, was a name given to their country by
the Jagas, that its true name was Framazugda, and that the people were



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