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which is the same language, a mission text-book. East- 

 ward from Wandammen the numerals only are recorded 

 (7), but at the Southern point of the Bay, in the district 

 around Jamur Lake we have the collections made by 

 Van der Sande during the Wichmann Expedition of 1903 

 (8). He gives a vocabulary of Angadi, an island in the 

 Jamur Lake, some words of the Nagramadu dialect on 

 the North-west, and the numerals of Goreda on the South 

 of the lake. The languages of the Western Shore of 

 Geelvink Bay are represented only by numerals (7) but 

 there is more information of the language of Pauwi at the 

 mouth of the Wambcram or Amberno or Mamberamo 

 River, where F. van Braam Morris collected a vocabulary 

 published by Robide van der Aa in 1885 (6). This was 

 considered faulty by de Clercq.* 



Westward along the Northern coast very little 

 linguistic material is available, and the few words re- 

 corded show great differences. The places of which the 

 speech is known are, on the mainland : Takar, Tarfia and 

 Tana Merah, and on the islands : Liki (in the Kumamba 

 Group), Moar (called also Wakde), Masimasi and Jamna 



(4. 5). 



For the region about Humboldt Bay we have short 

 vocabularies of Jotafa by various collectors, and a fuller 

 one by G. L. Bink (2), also Sentani lists by P. E. Moolen- 

 burg (3) and van der Sande (8). Moolenburg also gives 

 a list from Seka, West of the Bay. 



For the Southern shore of Netherlands New Guinea, 

 we have nothing but vocabularies, none of very large 

 extent, the most extensive being that of Merauke in the 

 extreme West (15) which has also been ably discussed b}^ 

 Dr. N. Adriani. f 



Commencing at Kamrau Inlet, the languages of the 



* Cf. Translation by G. G. Batten in " Glimpses of the Eastern Archipelago," 

 1894. 



f Dr. N. Adriani. Eenige opmerkingen over de MeraukC-Taal naar aanleiding 

 der Woordenlijst van Contr. J. Seijne Kok, in " De Zuidwest Nieuw-Guinca- 

 expeditie van het Kon. Ned, Aardrijkskundig Genootschap, i904-5-" 



