32 The Oceanic Languages Shemitic : 



before it was used attached to these two words, they must 

 be held as comparatively modern. The Shemitic hham-s, 5, 

 is connected with qometz (Hebrew) "fist/' as Bisayan (T) 

 ima, 5, with camiot, '^ hand/' see § 4, 5. 



§ 18. The foregoing does not profess to be a complete 

 exhibition of the subject of which it treats^ though sufficiently 

 so to show that the Oceanic numeral system and numerals 

 are Shemitic. 



APPENDIX ON THE AUSTRALIAN AND 

 TASMANIAN NUMERALS. 



In some Australian dialects there are separate words only 

 for 1 and 2, exactly as in Torres Straits and on the adjacent 

 coast of New Guinea ; in some for 1, 2, and 3 ; and in some 

 for 1,2, 3, 4, and 5. But it may be laid down as a general 

 rule that, as in Oceanic, these separate words are the same 

 everywhere, in so far as they are found used. The follow- 

 ing five comparative tables are designed to "prove these 

 separate Australian numeral-words identical with the 

 Oceanic. The Oceanic words which are compared in the 

 tables are the same as those explained in the foregoing 

 pages, and reference to those pages will explain every ques- 

 tion that can arise regarding them. The only question that 

 can arise as to the Australian here compared, which fairly 

 and fully represent the numerals of the whole Australian 

 group, is as to the prefixes and postfixes attached to them, 

 and all that seems necessary to say in this place is that 

 they are manifestly identical with the corresponding Oceanic 

 prefixes and postfixes pointed out in § 2, and for the most 

 part also seen actually attached to the Oceanic words in 

 the following tables : — 



The Numeral 1. 



Oceanic. Australian. 



MallicoUo, hokol Lake Macquarie, ivakol 



Middleburgh, N.G., mele Kamilaroi, mal 



Seroci, N.G., hoiri Omeo Tribe, V., hoor 



Eddystone, Tcamee Port Lincoln, comia 



New Britain, hapeau Wimmera, V., Iceyap 



