14 THE WOMBAT. 



(7) The Australian nga is 'I,' but a stronger form is nga-do, 

 ngatu-k, both of whit h are used in the State of Victoria; nga-ta 

 and nga-toa in New South Wales ; nga-tha and nga.tu-ko in 

 Western Australia. The terminations do, ta are constant, for 

 they are merely affixes, but the a of nga is modified into a, e, to 

 form the plural ; a« in Awabakal nga-toa, ' I,' plural nge-en ' we.' 

 Hence I write nga-do in this number 7. 



The guli here is the numeral ' three.' Many Australian 

 languages count only ' one ' and ' two,' and then make compounds 

 of these words for ' three' and 'four;' but several use guliba, 

 •agoro, wahr-ran and some other words for ' three.' Observe that 

 in guliba the demonstrative affix ba has a place, and the stem is 

 guli, which Mr Tuckfield represents by kolli. 



8, U, 20, 23. The ud here is ngu-d, that is ngu, with a 

 formative d added, probably the d of do, as in gna-do. That ngu 

 is a form of the second pronoun is proved by the Awabakal nu-ra, 

 ' you,' the Diyeri yu-ra, ' you,' yudla, ' you two,' and the South 

 Australian ngun, ngunnu, ' you,' ngu-pal, ' you two.' 



(9) Ta-na, in Awabakal tara, is the plural of ta. 



(10) This wadjo is at present only a suggestion of mine, for I 

 have no proof for it. The nearest approach to it is madyu, ' I ' used 

 at Fort Cooper, and wo-n, ' I' in Woddowro. 



(11, 12) See above. 



(13, 14) Ung is a genitive and dative inflexion in Awabakal; 

 ior-umba, that is, ung-ba, is used for the possessive of proper names, 

 but ko-ba for all other nouns, In that instance and in number 14 

 the ba and the da are both suffix demonstratives. In my arrange- 

 ment I have written ko-dd (a modified), for I do not know whether 

 Mr Tuckfield's de is to be sounded as day or dee. 



(15-24) The forms in these numbers have been considered 

 above. 



GENERAL OBSEKVATIONS ON THE LIST OF PRONOUNS. 



(1) I do not know whether Mr Tuckfield's MSS. show the 

 objective cases of these pronouns, but it would have been an ad- 

 vantage to me to have them under consideration ; for that case is 

 often a key to the rest of the pronoun in Australia. 



(2) Observe that in the dual forms of the first and second 

 persons, the pronoun is crushed out, and in the third nearly so. 



(3) 1 he suggestion that bula and guliba were to be found in- 

 corporated in the Binal and Ternal, was made by Prof. T. Gr. 

 Tucker, of the University of Melbourne, to whom Mr Cary com- 

 municated his discovery at the first. 





