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larise from memory, although at one time possessed of written memo- 

 randa regarding all the polyglot tribes of the Nipalese Turai and 

 Morung, a tract of country which I traversed in 1839, and which 

 contains a most extraordinary assemblage of outcastes from Hindooism, 

 yet ununited under any form of religion, unless a devotion to a few 

 superstitious rites, propitiatory of evil disposed spirits, be considered to 

 constitute a religious union. 



above, tangh 

 aged, kapoba 

 air, shami 

 all, kerre 

 arm, hook 

 arrow, thoong 

 ashes, kassoo 

 ask, V, shelasste 

 axe, tonti 

 back, N, ar 

 bad, menzejaba 

 bag, sh 66 wa 

 bamboo, pha 

 bark, V, ho 

 bark, N, shinghoori 

 barrel, towa* 

 bead, eiche 

 bear, N, magyeu 

 beat, sheray 

 beautiful, nogha 



bed, netuadry 



bee, leem 

 bell, pongyay 

 belly, shapoo 

 bird, mooyava 

 bitter, ki 

 black, makloh 

 blanket, namboo 



Limboo Vocabulary. 



blood, lakshokpa 

 blue, mukloh 

 board, shingophreu 

 boat, kombe 

 body, yam 

 bone, kulungji 

 book, sapla 

 bow, N, li 

 boy, henja 

 bracelet, shiringma 

 branch, kodneke 

 breast, loongma 

 bridge, phoong 

 broad, yomba 

 brother, amphoo 

 younger, nisha 

 buffalo, shangvva 

 buy, meuloong 

 candle, tialoo 

 cannon, potang 

 caste, keloongji 

 cat, miongma 

 cheek, nedengba 

 child, oong negwa 

 city, pang yek 

 cloth, tek 

 cloud, ka mi 

 cold, choongsi 



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