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chopping, nang tai rava a prau wor- 
ra-zura. (Their canoes are made of 
the drift-wood from other islands.) 
Y: 
Yellow, arreng’. 
Yes, ira, or ila. 
Yesterday, rollo. 
Yesterday night, rollo nibo’. 
You. See under Pronouns. 
Pickering on the Language and Inhabitants 
The names of the different members 
of the family in which the seaman Hor- 
ace Holden lived were : — 
Parabua, the father of the family. 
Nakit, the mother. 
Biwir'timir, the eldest child, then 
twelve or fourteen years of age. 
Kobowiit, the second, a daughter. 
Kobanuik, the third, a daughter also. 
Wa’ribo, the fourth, a son. 
Tobi and English Vocabulary ; being the preceding Vocabulary re- 
versed. 
A. 
Ama’, where. 
Amana, that. 
Araii, or rai, a reef of rocks, breakers. 
Arreng’, yellow. 
Atang, or zatang, crying. 
Atia, or tia, this. 
Atidi, here. 
Aturna, or eturna, there. 
B. 
Ba, why. See English Why. 
Bizzhim, brother. 
Bur, earth, dirt. 
Bitch/ibitch, clean. 
Biitch/ibiitch chim, old; literally, the hair 
is white; butchi butchi, white. 
Biizhanet’, to tie. 
Cc 
Chau, acocoa-nut. See English Vocab-| 
ulary, Cocoa-nut. 
Chil, bone. 
Chim, hair of the head. See Kusum. 
Chipa, iron hoop, See Pang-iil. 
E. 
Etidi, or atidi, here. 
Etiurna, there. 
G. 
Giir, thou, you; gur nang, we, 1. e. you 
andI. See He, in English Vocabu- 
lary. 
H. 
H’n (an indistinct sound, resembling a 
grunt), what. 
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Ika, fish. 
Ila, or ira, yes. 
K. 
Kaimtk, hand, including the arm and 
fingers. 
Karapa, a cocoa-nut, when it is hard, but 
still green outside, and nearly fit to be 
gathered; karapa watzerris, a black 
or old cocoa-nut. (Malay, kalapa; 
Sunda, kalapa (Crawf.); Javanese, 
klapa.) 
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