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PHILOLOGY. 



ykam kabakaai, ye cause me to fall 

 ykam kabakagami, ye cause yourselves to 



fall 



ia tian kabakago, I have caused thee to fall 

 ko tian kabakaai, thou hast caused me, &c. 

 tia na kabakaia, I will cause him to fall 



ko na kabakaara, thou wilt cause us, &c. 

 tia kana kabakago, I am going to cause 

 thee to fall, &c. 



Kabakak, caused to fall, thrown down. 

 e kabakak te tapa, the knife is thrown down 



The preceding remarks and examples are sufficient to give a general knowledge of 

 the most striking grammatical characteristics of the Tarawan language. Concerning the 

 remaining parts of speech, and the rules of construction, nothing further need be added 

 here. The vocabulary, which has been made as complete as possible, will furnish many 

 instances of idioms peculiar to this tongue ; but it has seemed best not to attempt, on 

 every point, minute explanations, which, considering the defectiveness of our materials, 

 would have been likely often to lead into error. What has been here given will be suffi- 

 cient to enable the student of comparative philology to determine the relations of this 

 tongue to others, and to assign to it its proper place in the family to which it belongs. 



