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English. Redscar Bay. Brumer Islands. Louisiade. 



Females^ No. 2. ... Narumai, Ta- 



tarai (D) •■ 



— 3. . . . Haraobi, Bo- 



narua (D) 



— 4. ... Perodi 



5. . . . Giibetta 



No. III. 



REMARKS ON THE VOCABULARIES 



OP THE 



VOYAGE OP THE EATTLESNAKE. 



BY R. G. LATHAM, M.D. 



In the way of comparative philology the most important 

 part of the Gram^mar of the Australian languages is, ge- 

 nerally, the Pronoun. That of the Kowrarega language 

 will, therefore, be the first point investigated. 



In the tongues of the Indo-European class the personal 

 pronouns are pre-eminently constant, i.e., they agree in 

 languages which, in many other points, differ. How 

 thoroughly the sound of m runs through the Qothic, 

 Slavonic, and Iranian tongues as the sign of the pronoun 

 of the first person singular, m the oblique cases ; how 

 regularly a modification of f, s, or th, appears in such words 

 as tu, (TV, thou, &c. ! Now this constancy of the Pronoun 

 exists in most languages ; but not in an equally palpable and 



