NAMAQUA LANGUAGE

[s. 539] : A very difficult language of the African family and the Hottentot group, spoken in the German Southwestern Africa, north of the Orange River. The difficulty of the language is largely due to its containing four curious smacking sounds which Europe ans Nanking: among the Shans, 56 miles E. S. E. Bhamo. Altitude 2,630 feet. Station of the ABMU (1893), with (1903) 2 mi ionaries, 1 with his wife; 15 native worliers, 3 outstations, 3 places of worship, 2 Sunday schools, 1 day school, 1 boarding school, 2 dispensaries, 1 hospital, and 160 profe ed Christians, of whom 62 are communicants. NAN. See Muangnan. NAN-CHANG-FU A town in the Province of: Kiangsi, China, on the right bank of the Kiakiang, 173 miles S. E. by S. of Han-kau, the emporium of the porcelain manufacture E. of Lake Poyang. Station of the CIM (1898), with (1903) 1 mi ionary and his wife and 1 place of worship. Station also of the ME, with 2 mi ionaries and their wives, 9 native worlcers, 6 outstations, 6 day schools, 7 Sunday schools, 26 places of worship, and 1,316 profe ed Christians. Station also of the PB. NANDGAON A town in the Central Provinces: of India, situated in the native state of the same name, of which it is the capital, and 42 miles W. by S. of Raipur. Station of the Pentecost Bands, of the World (1898), with (1900) 3 mi ionaries, 2 of them with their wives; 2 women mi ionaries, 2 native workers, 1 place of worship, 1 Sunday school, 1 book-room, orphanage. Society 1 industrial school, 1 writes the name Raj Nandgaon. 539