846 PROCEEDINGS OF SECTION F. 7 
SUMMARY OF PAPER ON WOD-DOW-RO, DANTGURT, AND 
KOLIJON. 
Title. Other Authorities. Prefatory Note. 
Letters. Sounds. Change in Words. 
Classification. The Noun. 
Inflection of the Noun, 
Derivation of the Noun. 
Pronouns. 
Interjection. Unclassified Word. Emphasis. 
Example of Parsing. Examples of Syntax. 
VOCABULARY. 
Names of Natural Objects:—The Seasons. Parts of the Body. 
Quadrupeds. Birds. Reptiles. Fish. Insects. Trees and 
Shrubs. 
Words b to y. 
Sentences and Phrases. 
Scriptural Paraphrases:—The Fall. The Commandments. The 
Lord’s Prayer. Homily, A Fragment. Grace before and Grace 
after Meals. 
Appendix, 
AUSTRALIAN LANGUAGE: WOD-DOW-RO, 
DANTGURT, AND KOLIJON. 
THE dialects spoken by the Aborigines of the Geelong and Colac 
districts. From the MSS. of Francis Tuckfield, Collated by 
John J. Cary. 
Wod-dow-ro, Dangurt, and Kolijon words not included in this collection 
are found in— 
R. Brough Smythe’s ‘‘ Aborigines of Victoria,” vol. ii. 
John Hilder Wedge’s ‘‘ Note Book” ; Bonwick’s ‘‘ Port Phillip Settle- 
ment,” p. 247 
G. T. Lloyd’s ‘‘ Thirty-three Years in Tasmania and Victoria,” p. 470. 
E. J. Eyre’s ‘‘ Journals of Discovery,” vol. ii, p. 400-2. 
The Witouro list of words found herein, and incorporated also in ‘‘ The 
Aborigines of Victoria,” was very probably obtained originally by Edward 
Stone Parker, Assistant Protector of Port Phillip Aborigines, who refers to 
Witouro as one of eight dialects used in his district. ‘* Papers Relating to 
the Aboriginies” printed by order of the House of Commons, 1844. 
Samuel Mossman, whose short listof Wod-dow-ro words forms an appendix 
to this paper, was an early resident of Port Phillip, coming to Geelong in 
1841. He has preserved a few crumbs of information concerning these 
times in a small brochure or two, besides leaving some MS. notes, 
