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Australia that have so often been insisted on. It is this — 

 that the affinities of language between the Tasmanian and 

 the New Caledonian are stronger than those between the 

 Australian and Tasmanian. This indicates that the stream 

 of population for Van Diemen's ran round Australia rather 

 than across it. 



The following affinities occur between the vocabularies 

 published in the present volume and the Malay and 

 Monosyllabic dialects ; and they are the result of a very 

 partial collation. 



1. Blood=w«w, Darnley Island; miikum. South Jooroo 

 dialect of Malacca ; rnau, Anamitic of Cochin China. 



2. Nose=p?e£, Darnley Island ; peechi, Massied ; pih, 

 Chinese ; pi, Kong Chinese. 



3. ¥ace=awop aup, Murray Islands; eebu= (head) Cape 

 York, Massied; oopoo= (head) Tahiti; epoo, Sandwich 

 Islands ; aopo, Easter Island. 



4. Hair=moos ? Darnley Island ; mooche, Massied; maow, 

 Chinese. 



5. Country =gaed, Darnley Island ; kaha, Ternate. 



6. Black —gooli, Darnley Island; houli, Tongataboo. 



7. Hand=to^, Darnley Island; tangh, Madagascar; 

 tong, Jooro ; tag, Anamitic. A current Malay root. 



8. Fish=wapi 9 Darnley Island ; iba, Poggy Isles off 

 Sumatra. Also in other Malay dialects. 



9. Flame, ftre=bae, Darnley Island; api, Flores, or 

 Ende ; fat, Siamese ; ffoo, Kong Chinese. 



10. H'diY=gal, Massied; eeal, Cape York ; yal, Port 

 Lihou ; houlou, Tongataboo. 



11. Teeth —dang, Massied; dang a, Cape York; dang 

 Port Lihou ; dang'eta, Gunong-talu of Celebes ; wahang, 

 Menadu ; rang, Anamitic. 



