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shore and islands are illustrated by the Kowiai vocabu- 

 laries of Miklucho-Maclay (13), the papers of G. W. Earl * 

 and the lists of S. Muller (10), the last two being derived 

 from the collections made during the voyage of the 

 Triton under Lieut. Modera in 1828. The following 

 languages are named : — 



Lobo at Triton Bay (including Namatote, Aiduma, Mawara, and Kaju-Mera). 



Wuaussirau, inland on the Kamaka-Wallar Lake. 



^lairassis, inland from Lobo. 



Lakahia, on Tclok Lakaliia. 



Kiruru, on Tclok Kiruru. 



Utanata, on the Utanata River. 



Westward of the Utanata a vocabulary of the language 

 spoken on the Mimika River people was obtained by Mr. 

 Wollaston in 1910-11. A list of the same language is 

 given also in the account of the South-west New Guinea 

 Expedition of the Royal Netherlands Geographical 

 Association. f The latter work contains a few words of 

 the language used at the mouth of the Kupera Pukwa 

 River. 



The language of Merauke has been recorded by J. 

 Seijne Kok (15), and by J. C. Montague and E. F. Bik, % 

 that of Toro by S. Bik.f 



n. CLASSIFICATION OF THE LANGUAGES. 



Of the three languages in the northern part of Eastern 

 Netherlands New Guinea that of the Jotafa of Hum- 

 boldt Bay has been ably discussed by Dr. Kern,§ who 

 decides that in phonology, construction, numeration and 

 word store it presents many points of agreement with 

 the Mefoor or Nufor of the North-west. But it un- 

 doubtedly also contains many words which are of non- 



* G. W. Earl, Native Races of the Indian Archipelago, Papuans, 1853, Appen- 

 dix, and Jour. Roy. Geographical Society, 1837, p. 393-395- 



t De Zuidwest Nieuw-Guinea-expeditie van het Kon. Ned. Aardrijkskundig 

 Genootschap, 1904-5. Leiden, 1908. 



X Cf. Internat. Archiv. fiir Ethnographic, 16, 1905, and Reports of Cambridge 

 Anthropological Expedition, III., p. 387. 



§ H. Kern. Over de taal der Jotafa's aan de Humboldtbaai, Bijdragen tot de 

 Taal-, Land, en Volkenkunde van Ned. Indie, 6 Volg. deel VII. 



