Crossword-Solution: KURRU 5 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Negation may be expressed either by the prefix _m_ or _ma_, as _mayahaddinikade_, I do not walk (where the prefix throws the pronoun to the end of the word, and gives it the form appropriate for that position), or else by the adverb _kurru_, not.

But if both these negatives are used, they make an affirmative, as _madittinda kurru Gott_, I am not unacquainted with God.

One could readily distinguish amongst the notes of the various contributors in the evening chorus, the “kooroo” of the lizard, and the “appa-appa” of the frog, sounds from which the native names for these creatures are derived, viz., “kurru-rupu” and “appa-appa.” Numerous fire-flies lit up the recesses of the forest, as if to disclose the hiding-places of the performers in the general discord, but to no purpose; and soon, rather fatigued by our day’s exertions, we fell asleep.

The natives of the islands of Bougainville Straits, where, as I have just remarked, my batrachian collection was chiefly made, have given frogs the general name of “appa-appa” in imitation of their noise, just as they have named the smaller lizards “Kurru-rupu” for the same reason.

LETTER XXIV.--DONGOLA, JUNE 15, 1844 251 Excursion into the district of cataracts.--Bân.--Departure from Barkal.--Pyramids of Tanqassi, Kurru, and Zûma.--Churches and fortresses of Bachît, Magal, Gebel Dêqa.--Old Dongola.--Nubian language.