CHAPTER X. 



VOCABULARY OF THE ISLANDS OF BOUGAINVILLE STRAITS — TREA- 

 SURY ISLAND, THE SHORTLAND ISLANDS, FARO OR FAURO 

 ISLAND, WITH CHOISEUL BAY. 



THIS vocabulary was formed in great part by Lieutenant A. 

 Leeper, to whom I ma}'- take this opportunity of expressing my 

 thanks for his kindness, in thus placing it at my disposal. I have 

 supplemented this list from smaller vocabularies made by Lieutenant 

 C. F. de M. Malan and by myself. It is to be regretted that, owing to 

 Lieutenant Malan taking up a Colonial appointment in Fiji during the 

 last year of the commission, we were unable to avail ourselves in a 

 fui'ther degree of his knowledge of the Fijian tongue, and of his 

 general acquaintance with the construction of the Polynesian 

 languages. We are, however, especially indebted to him for the 

 recognition of the pronominal suffixes. 



The spelling follows to a great extent the mode adopted in the 

 missionary alphabet of Professor Max Miiller, as given on page 116 

 of the Anthropological Notes and Queries drawn up at the request 

 of the British Association. The vowels and dipthongs are pro- 

 nounced as in the following examples ; — a as a in father, e as a in 

 fate, i as i in marine, o as o in note, u as oo in moon, ai as ai in aisle, 

 au as ou in proud. Where there has been an evident want of agree- 

 ment in the three vocabularies, I have given the different words or 

 the different spellings, as the case may have occurred. We have 

 thus been, in some degree, " checks " to each other : and I hope we 

 have avoided, in this manner, many of those errors into which the 

 unassisted framer of a vocabulary is so liable to fall The accented 

 syllable is thus indicated (') in most instances where it is needed, 

 the accent being usually placed on the penultimate. 



