Excerpt from Hausaland or Fifteen Hundred Miles Through, the Central Soudan The general principle of the system is this: the vowels are pronounced as in Italian, the consonants as in English, every letter is pronounced, and no redundant letters are introduced. Thus Ashanti should be written, not Ashantee Hausa, not Haussa, or Honsa, or Haoussa, or Husa, as I have seen it variously written. The diphthon g an is to be sounded as ow is in the English word how. To those who are desirous of assisting in a practical way the advancement of the higher interests of the Hausa people, I would commend the perusal of Appendix II., and more especially its concluding paragraph. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.