BY FRITZ NOETLING, M.A., PH.D., ETC. 35 



I do not think that there can be the sHghtest doubt that 

 the words used by the Eastern and Southern tribes are 

 practically the same, and that freestone was called 

 Potta-malle(ea) — (mali). 



In going through the vocabulary, we find under the 

 lieading " White," 



Eastern Tribes — Malleetye. 

 Southern Tribes — Mallee or Malluah. 



Xorth and Western Tribes — Mugyanghgarrah. 

 It is therefore unquestionable that 



Potta malee(tye) 

 means a white or whitish rock. This fully agrees with 

 the appearance of the freestone, which is a sandstone of 

 light yellowish, frequently almost whitish, colour (i). 

 There is not the slightest reason to assume that the 

 "''freestone" of the Western and North-Western tribes 

 was different from that which occurs in the Southern 

 and Eastern parts of the island. Though somewhat dif- 

 ferent in spelHng, I have no doubt that 



Ponin galee and potta malee 

 are exact!}" the same ; in other words, that " galee " of 

 the Western and North-Western tribes is the 



Mallee(tye) 

 of the Eastern and Southern tribes, and means " white." 



I do not think that there can be much doubt as to 

 the identity of the words 



Galee and yale(e), 

 and if this be so 



" Terana yale " 

 would mean " white flint." 



The complete verbal translations would therefore 

 be— 



Poyngha — Hair, matted with red ochre. 

 Terana — Flint. 

 Yale — White. 



and the operation which Milligan freely translated as 

 *' to shave with a flint " would be expressed by the above 

 three words. 



(i) For instance, in the quarries near Austin's Ferry. 



