Taplin in his grammar and vocabulary and in various trans- 

 lations of Gospels and hymns for the use of the natives at the 

 mission. This is particularly noticeable as regards the term- 

 ination of the dual case, e.g., kwo : /nu, two men: ke : dlu, 

 two dogs, which in Taplin's version would take the forms 

 "kornengk, kelengk." One word given by Karammi is worthy 

 of note: pindamewi, white man, because it is evidently 

 borrowed from the Adelaide language. "Pindimeyu," accord- 

 ing to Teichelmann's vocabulary, is the word coined by the 

 Adelaide tribe to express a "European," because he was sup- 

 posed to be a blackfellow (meyu) who had come back from 

 "pindi," the "grave, or habitation of souls before birth and 

 after death." Neither of these words occurs in Narrinyeri, 

 which in its general vocabulary is quite distinct from the 

 Adelaide language or any other of the great Tindo familv. 



Double consonants and distinctly long vowels are more 

 common in Narrinyeri than in the other two languages here 

 dealt with. The occurrence of the cacuminal r and of some 

 other sounds was overlooked by Mr. Taplin in his compilation. 



jammelai, one. 



ja : pi, wood. 



ja/nin, talking ; iikai jarnin ki'ri?/ka/i kalt, he is talking 



the English language. 

 jikab (ikab), T: jikab alj, I am here. 



jikai (ikai, kai), this one, he : ikai ka/nki, he (is) laughing. 

 jilgi, saltwater, sea. 

 jituwi, billy can. 

 ju:ki (ju:kwi), boat. 

 ju:li, sea. 



ka'dje:ni, Port Elliot. 



kaikwud, call: ke : dlar kaikwud, call the cloos ! 

 ka'lallin, it is hot. 

 kaldi, (kalt) language. 

 karadipi, the Bluff (Rosetta Head), 

 karnkin, laughing, 

 karnmeri, mullet, 

 ka : rti, island. 



ka'rammi, the name of my informant at Port Elliot. 

 ka'rendi, a stick. 

 karrawi, earth, 

 ke : dli (ke : li), a dog. 

 ke :ni (ke : ni), fire. 

 kidnanju:li ke : dli, (that is) his dog. 

 , kinanji mo:kumin, he (is) smoking, 

 ki'ri^kari, white man. Meyer says (p. 60) : — "Gringkari 



(1) dead ; (2) Europeans (whom they imagine to have 



previously existed as black men)." 



