AS A TEST OF MENTAL CAPACITY. 



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Table of Australian Derivatives. 



Table of Australian Derivatives {continued). 



Mr. Threlkeld's notes explained that a musket (as well as a cudgel) is called bnnkili- 

 kane, because it strikes with the ball ; and the same word is applied to a hammer or 

 mallet. A magistrate is called wimkiyc, when he resigns or commits an accused person to 

 a jailer ; and hence a watch-house or jail is called either vmnkililuine, a means of commit- 

 ting, or vmnMlvieiU a committing-place. UpnH signifies, properly, to do anything with an 

 instrument ; hence upaiye might be applied to a painter or cobbler, as well as to a writer, 

 and upalikane would then mean a brush or awl. To the foregoing list might have been 

 added a column of very expressive derivatives ending in toara, and having a passive 

 signification, as bunloara, that which is struck (as a drum or a bell), and umaliloara, that 

 which is made or done, as any piece of work. 



It is now ascertained that all the tribes of Australia speak " dialect- languages " be- 

 longing to one stock. This fact I was able to determine for those of the eastern portion 

 by vocabularies collected during my visit. At a later day my distinguished friend, Dr. 

 Friedrich Millier, of the Novara expedition, had opportunities of extending his observa- 

 tions and collections over all the coasts, with the same result. A grammatical sketch 

 kindly furnished to me by a well-informed missionary, the Rev. "William "Watson, of 



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