ABORIGIXES OF TASAIAXIA.— THE NORMAN 

 VOCABULARY. 



The. Rev. James Norman, the author of this 

 vocabulary and the accompanying notes, was for some 

 years attached to a Mission in Sierra Leone. He arrived 

 in Tasmania in 1827, and after temporary employment 

 in Launceston and at New Town, he was appointed in 

 1832 to the Chaplaincy of Sorell, which at that time 

 included Richmond and Tasman's Peninsula, and ex- 

 tended to Swansea, on the East Coast. His removal to 

 Hobart upon his retirement from Sorell in 1867 was soon 

 followed by his death in 1868. On the day of his funeral 

 all public ofifices in Hobart were closed by order of the 

 Governor, as a testimony of respect for his long and 

 valuable services to the colonv. 



THE NOR^L\N VOCABULARY. 



(P. i) Tragardik, nomercurtick, planewoorack — state of 



pregnancy; teeaner — come; tooreelur — bread; poorne- 

 thenar — child, alias pickerninny; moograr — dog; par- 

 kalla (adopted) — beef; nummerwar — no; parwar, par- 

 warlar — yes; compomer — man's name; teurar — woman's 

 name; wartermeediar — woman's name; widdererneddier 

 — woman's name; tringhener — to swim; mookenur — 

 water; temorkenur — to drink; tringhener — to swim. 



(P. 2.) [The natives are in general very adept swimmers, and can 

 pass through the water, performing the most agreeable 

 evolutions, with almost the same ease and rapidity as the 

 piscine tribes themselves.] 



Togurlongurberner — to dive. [This duty devolves 

 upon the women, who are held in a state of subserviency 

 by their husbands, and are made not only to provide fish, 

 but to carry heavy burdens, imposed upon them by their 

 unfeeling and ungallant partners. The mode of diving is 

 thus: The female so engaged slings a basket round her 

 neck, and with a stick in her hand plunges into the deep. 



