Ray & Haddon — The Languages of Torres Straits — II. 365 



XV. — Concluding Rema-eks. 

 (A) JBihliography. 



The following additions have to be noted : — 



(27) {n. (I.) Htkn Book. — Saibai. 



[Mentioned by D'Albertis, New Guinea, p. 350.] 



(28) 1880. D'Albeetis, Ltjigi Maeia.. — Alia Nuova Guinea: cib cbe 



ho veduto e cio che ho fatto. Torino, Londra. 8°. 



pp. xvi and 588. 



[Contains : p. 567. Vocaboli usati nell' Isole fork, Torres 

 Straits, p. 568. Vocaboli usati dalla gente di Moatta, alia foce del 

 Fiume Katau.] For English. Version, see No. 9. 



(29) 1883. ISTew Guinea jS'umeeais. Letters by Messrs. A. H. Sayce, 



Krebs, A. H. Keane, and Coutts Trotter. In Academy, 



vol. XXIV. (1883) pp. 285, 302, 317. 



On p. 317, a letter by Mr. Coutts Trotter contains the Saibai 

 numerals. 



(30) 1892. Queensland. — Annual Report on British New Guinea, 



from 1st July, 1890, to 30th June, 1891, with 

 Appendices. Brisbane : By authority, James C. Beal, 

 Government Printer, "William-street. 



Contains, among other vocabularies : pp. 128-132, " Abo- 

 riginal Vocabulary of the Dabu tribe. Table showing certain principal 

 words, &c., used by aboriginals of the Dabu tribe, and more or less 

 understood by other tribes between Mowatta and the Mai Kussa, on 

 the coast of British New Guinea. (Some words have been taken from 

 the neighbouring Toga tribe, when the two dialects differ.) 



This vocabulary is discussed in the next section. 



(31) 1892. Thomson, J. P., F.E.G.S.— British I^ew Guinea. Lon- 



don : George Philip and Son. 



An Appendix.— " VI. New Guinea Dialects," contains: pp. 

 286-292, Vocabulary of the Kiwai Language ; pp. 292-294, Vocabulary 

 of the Langiiage spoken at Saibai, Dauan, and Boigu, and understood 

 on the adjacent coast of New Guinea ; also, on pp. 320—322, Aboriginal 

 Vocabulary of the Dabu Tribe. The Kiwai and Saibai vocabularies 

 are from the Annual Eeport on New Guinea, 1890 (See Bibliography 

 in Part I. of this study, No. 23, p. 470), and the Dabu from No. 

 30, above. There is nothing original in this book. 



