Ray & Haddon — The Languages of Torres Straits. — II. 371 



The Katedong numerals are mo, one ; jejahe (pronounced yeyahe), 

 ■combined as in Miriam, y«/ie a mo, three -^jahe ajahe, four ; fne mo (one 

 hand), five. 



C. MiEiAu: Geamitae. 



The Murray Island Grammar of Dr. A. Graf. v. d. Schulenberg 

 (Bibliog. No. 32) is based on the translation of the Miriam Gospels 

 (No. 13), which formed part of the material for our grammar in 

 Part I. Dr. Schulenberg makes no reference to other sources of 

 information, although a vocabulary and notes on the language were 

 published by his relative, v. d. Gabelentz, in 1882 (No. 11). The 

 omission, no doubt, arose from the translation being styled "Murray 

 Island Language," whilst the vocabulary (based upon Jukes, Macgil- 

 livray, and Stone) is called the language of Errub and Maer. 



Dr. Schulenberg's work is thus arranged : — 



{a) Grammatik, i. Laut- und Betonungslehre, j)?- 1-2. 



II. Der Sprachbau, . . ,, 3-6. 



ni. Wort- u. Formenbildung, . ,, 7-58. 



IV. Hilfsworter, . . . ,, 59-67. 



V. Zum Satzbau, . . . ,, 68-77. 



{b) Vocabularium, ......,, 79-114. 



Lehnworterverzeichnis, . . . ,, 115-116. 



(c) Sprachproben, . . . . . . ,, 117-133. 



Considering the faulty character of the translation used, and the 

 absence of outside information, Dr. Schulenberg has made a fair 

 attempt to elucidate the forms of Miriam Grammar, but it is manifest 

 that when the soi-disant translators of the Gospel express themselves 

 ignorant of the grammar, we cannot expect an entire absence of 

 error from the work of those who attempt to analyse their productions. 

 It will be convenient here to give a summary of Dr. Schulenberg's 

 Grammatical forms for comparison with our grammar in Part I. : — 



1. Nouns. — Case endings: Possessive, r, ra; Dative, im; Illative, 

 em ; Ablative, or Elative, lam ; Causal and Instrumental, 

 de ; a second Instrumental, m ; Locative, ge ; Emphatic 

 Article, with Proper names, et ; probable accusative 

 (obsolete), ending i. 



Plural by gair, gaire, gai or giz. Plural prefix tc in 

 ugab, uader, uridili. 



