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local situation of this island and the condition of its inhabitants 
rendered it improbable, that they should have had so much inter- 
course with other islanders as to have received their numerals 
from any other source than they did the rest of their language. 
It was highly satisfactory to find afterwards, that the inference I 
had thus made was confirmed by the intelligent philologist of the 
American Exploring Expedition, Mr. Hale, who had an opportu- 
nity of personally obtaining a more copious vocabulary of the lan- 
guages of the Caroline Islands than has yet been collected. Two 
words, however, that were in use on Lord North’s Island, betray 
their European origin ;— these were, their two names for a hat, 
which, as pronounced by the seamen, were shamberaro and shdppo ; 
both evidently corruptions of the Spanish sombrero, and the Por- 
tuguese chapeo, or, perhaps, the French chapeau. 
A Vocabulary of the Language of Lord WNorth’s Island, called by 
the Natives Tobi, in the Indian Archipelago ; with Phrases and 
Dialogues in the Language. 
The orthography used in this vocabulary is conformable to the principles 
of a practical ‘‘ uniform orthography,’’ formerly proposed by the author for 
the unwritten Indian languages of North America, and now used by the 
missionaries among the Indian tribes.* This system was adopted many years 
ago by the American missionaries at the Sandwich Islands. The basis of it 
is, that the vowels should have what we generally term the foreign, or Ital- 
ian sounds, namely :—a, as in the English word father ; e, as in there; 1, 
as in machine; 0, as in note; u, as in rule; and y, as in you, or like the 1. 
A few modifications of these fundamental sounds are distinguished by diacritical 
* See Memoirs of the American Academy, Vol. IV., p. 319 (1818). 
