BY FRITZ NOETLING, PH.D., ETC. lOQ. 



I only wish to draw once more the attention to the 

 remarkable likeness of the Tasmanian word for blood,, 

 viz., 



Ba-loo-ina, 

 and the word for red ochre. If we separate balawine 

 in the following way — ba-law-ine — the similarity is so^ 

 striking- that there is every probability that the Tas- 

 manian name for red ochre means nothing- else but 

 '' blood." La Billiardiere gives another name for ochre,, 

 viz., ma-la-tie (i), which in the Tasmanian-English 

 vocabulary is spelt 



Ma-la-ne, 

 and translated as " yellow ochre " according to Peron. 

 Disregarding the suffix, we would have two kinds of. 

 ochre, viz.. 



Red ba-la-(wine). 



Yellow ma-la-(ne). 



I may remark here that in the dialect of the Southern, 

 tribes the name for canoe was 



Ma-la-na (mallanna). 



The similarity between this word and that for yellow 

 ochre is very remarkable. It is difficult, if not impos- 

 sible, to say whether there is not some mistake at the 

 bottom of this. I cannot find any reference to the use 

 of " yellow ochre " by the Aborigines, and this being so, 

 it is hardly probable that they would have distinguished 

 a substance which not only is of rare occurrence in Tas- 

 mania, but was also of no use to them, under a special; 

 name. 



8. HORNSTONE OR CHERT.— As this substance 

 formed the subject of a special paper, in w'hich all the 

 different rocks coming under this heading have been 

 discussed, I need not go into further detail. The 

 Aboriginal names were — 



Eastern Tribes — Trona, 

 and a special kind of this trona, probably the dark blue 

 or grey variety, was called 



Mora trona. 



(i) Considering the BVench pronunciation of the letter 

 " u," the last syllable comes nearest to the English wee-e; nia- 

 la-ue, might perhaps be transcribed as ma-la-vvi(n)e. 



