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that the adjective golegole should be applied to any large expanse 

 within which no discriminable features can be made out ? The dark 

 of night, the skin of the body, the expanse of sea and sky, these 

 are precisely the things to which a term meaning " uniform," " even," 

 "undifferentiated," is suitable. Then, of course, when the native 

 is asked to characterize black, blue, brown, violet papers or wools, — 

 a wholly novel task, — he gives them the name that he has ascribed 

 to the color-expanses, the large even color-fields; he calls them all 

 golegole. On this hypothesis, we may pair golegole with zvarowar,^^ 

 just as we paired kakekakek with dudii; for zvaroxvar is used of 

 marked, patterned, particolored fields, as I have assumed golegole 

 to be used of undifferentiated expanses. 



Guesswork! the objector will reply. Guesswork, no doubt ; but a 

 guess that is suggested directly by the reading of Rivers' text. The 

 Murray Islanders have, for instance — my table shows it — a color 

 name derived from the secretion of the purple-yielding mollusc, and 

 another derived from the name of the mollusc itself. The Western 

 Tribe has, apparently, only one word, derived from the name of the 

 mollusc; the same tribe has a term for dark brown derived from 

 saingiii, ink of cuttlefish, but no color name derived from the cuttle- 

 fish itself .^^ So far, then, as my data go, it is not fanciful to argue 

 that gole, meaning cuttlefish, does not necessarily carry the meaning 

 of inky black. 



Even, however, if this particular guess is wrong, the argument 

 on behalf of the Murray men is still not at an end. I see no reason 

 why they should be interested in the " brilliant blue of sky and sea " ; 

 for the brilliant blue means fine weather and calm. One or two 

 individuals of the Western Tribe called orange by a word meaning 

 sunrise, and violet by a word meaning a cloud which is black on the 

 one side and kiaur [violet?] on the other; there is no reference to 

 blue sky.*° The chief of Muralug called YG sea-color, G " like an- 

 other kind of sea, another wind," and B "sea with another kind of 



3« R, 55- 



39 R, 56, 60. 



40 R, 61. 



