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Pickering on the Language and Inhabitants 
marks, as follows ; the short 0, in the English word not, by 6 ; short u in but by 
u; zh represents the French 7. 
The consonants have their ordinary English sounds ; but the g is always hard, 
as in game, get, give, &c. 
The accentual marks only denote the syllable on which the stress of the voice 
is to be laid, and not a modification of the vowel sound. The accentual stress 
is always on the penultimate, except where otherwise denoted by the accentual 
mark. 
A. 
And, ma. 
Arm. See Hand. 
B. 
Back, tukkalek’. 
Bad, timma’. 
Bamboo, shil. (This does not grow on 
the island, but drifts from other places; 
the natives make knives of it.) 
Be (verb to be ; this verb is believed 
not to be found in the language). 
Beard, kusim. See Hair. 
Belly, mish‘ium. 
Big, yennitip. See Large. 
Bird (in general), karrim. Examples : 
nang zamiagi karrtim agi’, I saw your 
bird; nang zamiagi a karrum, J saw 
a bird, or birds; mi‘tchimim a karrum, 
the head of a bird; karrum a nang, my 
bird, literally, the bird of me; wu'shitu 
a karrum moa a Rollo, give the bird 
to Rollo (the name by which Holden 
was called on the island); gur za su- 
biji a karrum a Rollo wish’itu a tidi, 
do you go and get the bird from Rollo 
and bring it to me. 
Black, waizerris. 
Boat, prau. 
Bone, chil. 
Boy. See Man. 
Brass (or copper), mara bara. 
Break (to break as a stick), vitching’. 
Breakers, arau, or rau. 
Breast (of a female), tut. 
Brother, bizzhim. Example : bizzhim a 
gir, he is your brother. 
By and by, tapui a tirt. 
C. 
Canoe. See Boat. 
Carry (to); to carry sand, wohogi api; 
lo carry stone, wohogi avas ; to carry 
a man, wohogi a mara; nang za ho- 
gi karapa, I will carry the cocoa-nut. 
Child (of two, three, or four years old), 
labo; nang wa werri wedj, I am like 
a child; tchi-a-tchi labo, to sing to a 
child. 
Child-birth, yisse. 
Clean, bitch’ibitch. 
Clouds, kétcho. 
Cocoa-nut; in different stages this fruit 
has different names; as, (1.) sub, when 
in a very young state, so that they eat 
husk and all; it is then very bitter, 
and like a cabbage-stump; (2.) ub, 
when about four months old, and the 
part next to the stem is still soft; (3.) 
tchau, when the husk is so hard as 
to require breaking with a stone, the 
meat of the nut having begun to form 
and the milk being formed; (4.) kara- 
pa, when it is at the hardest, but still 
