A VOCABULARY 



OF THE 



TARAWAN LANGUAGE. 



NOTE. The words marked with an asterisk are those which were 

 obtained directly from the natives, and of which the orthography is 

 therefore more likely to be correct than that of the rest of the vocabu- 

 lary, furnished by the two interpreters. The words are, in general, 

 given as they were written down, though, in some cases, where the 

 alteration produced by the incorrect pronunciation of the interpreters 

 was evident, the word has been restored to what was plainly the cor- 

 rect form. When the two men differed from one another, or when, 

 from the indistinctness of the pronunciation, a difficulty was expe- 

 rienced in determining the exact pronunciation of a word, the varia- 

 tions have been given in brackets, sometimes with the initial of the 

 interpreter attached to it, when there is a possibility that the discre- 

 pancy may indicate a difference of dialect. 



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