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comment are the Substantives. Herein^ the formation of 

 the phiral by the addition of le, probably occurs in several 

 of the Australian tongues. I infer this from many of 

 those words which we find in the vocabularies of languages 

 whereof the grammar is unknown^ and which are expres- 

 sive of naturally plural objects ending in li, la, or I, 



1. Star (stars) — pur-le, pi-lle, poo-lle, in Parnkalla, 

 Aiawong, and Yak-kumban. 



2. Fire (flames) — ka-lla, gad-la, in W. Australian and 

 Parnkalla. 



3. Head (hair) — kur-le, Encounter Bay. Here we 

 learn from the forms kar-ga, from the Head of the Great 

 Australian Eighty and ma-kar-ta, from Adelaide^ that the 

 I is foreign to the root. 



4. Hands — marrow-la in the Molonglo dialect ; as con- 

 trasted with marra in the Adelaide. 



This, however, is merely a conjecture; a conjecture, 

 however, which has a practical bearing. It suggests cau- 

 tion in the comparison of vocabularies; since, by mis- 

 taking an inflexion or an affix for a part of the root, we 

 may overlook really existing similarities. 



Father Anjello's very brief grammatical sketch of the 

 Limbakarajia language of Port Essington* exhibits, as far 

 as it goes, precisely the same principles as Mr. Macgilliv- 

 ray's Kowrarega ; indeed, some of the details coincide. 



Thus, the Limbakarajia personal pronouns are — 



/ z^ nga-pi. We = ngari. 



Thou = noie. We two = arguri. 



He, she, it = gianat. Ye = noie. 



They = ngalmo. 



Here the pi in nga-pi is the po in the Aiawong nga-ppo; 



* Given to Mr. Macgillivray by Mr. James Macarthur, and prefixed to the 

 MS. Port Essington Vocabulary, alluded to at p. 157 of Vol. I 



