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VIII. 



STUDY OF THE LANGUAGES OE TORRES STRAITS, 

 WITH VOCABULARIES AND GRAMMATICAL NOTES. 

 (Part II.) By SIDNEY H. RAY, Member of the Anthropo- 

 logical Institute, and ALFRED C. HADDON, M.A., Royal 

 College of Science, Dublin. 



[Continued from the Pkoceedings, Ser. iii., Vol. ii., p. 616.] 



CONTENTS OF PAET II. 



XI. Sketch of Daudai Grammar. 

 XII. Specimens of the Daudai Lan- 



Tiii. Sketch of Saibai Grammar. 



IX. Specimens of the Saibai Lan- 



guage. 



X. Saibai-English Vocabulary. 



VIII. — Sketch of Saibai Gkammae. 



There is only one text available for the elucidation of Saibai 

 grammatical forms. This is a translation of the Gospel of Mark (16) 

 made by Elia, a native of Lifu, who was placed on the island of 

 Saibai by the London Missionary Society. Sharon's Vocabulary 

 (MS. 8) contains the terminals and pronouns, and there are also a few 

 sentences taken down at Muralug by one of us, and others from 

 Saibai and Boigu at the end of Sir W. MacGregor's Vocabulary (23). 

 But by far the most valuable grammatical notes on the language are 

 those found in the Kowrarega (Muralug) Vocabulary of Macgillivray, 

 which represent substantially the same language as the Saibai trans- 

 lation.^ 



With these materials we have done our best to draw up a Grammar 

 of the Language, but it is doubtful whether the whole is strictly 



1 These were based on communications made by Mrs. Thomson (Gi'om), a -white 

 ■woman who had been held in captivity by the natives of Muralug for more than 

 four years [" Voy. Eattlesnake,' " i., p. 301]. 



