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A NATURALIST'S WANDERINGS 



Lalcubutik 

 hSot 



Lalcubutik 

 liiilt 



Led 



(Suluki) BibigiiQu. 



Still showery 



Very hot. In this month, after 

 greiit offering to the Luli, 

 search is made for gold, and 

 continued only diuing this 

 month. 



Hot mouth. Grass is burned, 

 and preparations made for 

 planting the Indian corn. 



Samoro. 



Madai 



Funu 



Leet Manu- 

 luk 



Same operations. 

 Same operatiods. 



Same operations. 



There are thus twelve months, which they reckon by moons, in their years. 

 How many days there are in a moou they did not seem to know, for the number 

 was variously give as sixteen to thirty-five 



II. — Dialects spoken in Eastern Timor. 



In the different districts of Timor, different dialects (or (?) languages) are 

 found to be spoken. The following is a list of the names of those said to be 

 spoken in the region traversed by me, with the districts in which they are 

 spoken : — ■ 



Mambia or Kaladi . . 



Tetu (more or less the 

 lingua franca of E. 

 Timor) 



Mate .. 



Lalcale 



Saulcenlce 

 Veke .. 

 Vaiqueno 

 Galolo 



Marai 



Mandbai 



Kemak 



Tocndade 



Dagada 



Macassai 



Naubete 



Meadik 



Turscain ; Motaijl '; Hermera ; Kaimauk ; Hera ; 



Laicor. 

 Barique ; Bibi9ui;u ; Alias ; Suai ; Hera ; Saluki ; 



Ladubar ; Bailobo ; Cotubaba. 



Cairui ; Laclubar ; Manlutu ; Viqueque. 

 Bibi9U9U ; Kimauk ; Vemasse ; Barique ; Alius ; 



Samoro. 

 T.alea ; Vemasse ; Maututu ; Fatumarto ; Viuilale. 

 Bailobo. 

 Cova ; Suai. 

 Hera; Laculo; Motaijl; Lalea; Mantutu; Luga; 



Vemasse. 

 Manufahi ; Eameau ; Roltile. 

 Alias; Samoro; Tituluru ; Turscain. 

 Bailobo; Cora; Sanir ; Catobaba; Kailakuk; At- 



tesabe ; Boibau ; Biribate ; Lameian ; Maheibo. 

 Boibau ; Liquiga ; Maubara. 

 Lalea ; Faturo ; Saran. ' 

 Lug.i ; Vemasse. 

 Luca. 

 Faturo ; Luga ; Sarau. 



