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Nouns. 



Back moikïsi 

 belly l'i 

 breast burigi 

 Canoë du 

 cheek àpekc 

 cocoa-nut mâgrabé 

 Dog iii'orâ 

 Ear ehâra 

 Fire uhâ 



G. A. J. VAN DER SANDE. 



Nagramâdu. 



Hair obuihe 



head jabimâ 



house ja 



Mouth mohaha 



Navel moberebu 



neck umîke 



nose peg ixgo gnobe 



Pandanus leaf (wrapper fov cigars) kâbirhhi 



pig oha 



Rain hnojâ 



Sago emâ 



shin ararièkè 

 Throat gorobekï 

 tobacco sakn 

 tongue jâmâ?iârai 

 tooth si 



Verbs. 

 Drink viâjanârâge 

 Eat hanahâru 

 Sleep mâlëkireja 

 spit baburu 

 Urinate idâ 



A vocabulary of the Jôtëfa language (inner bay of Humboldt Bay) has already been given by 

 Bink [1902] (also printed in Bulletins de la Société d'Anthropologie de Paris, Vol. XI, 1S88, p. 386 et seq.). 

 It needs a revision to which I could spare no time, but it was thoroughly treated by Kern [1900] and by 

 Schmidt, the latter [1902, 38] classing this tongue with the Jamir, Sauvein, Saliu and Tumleo, in his IV 

 group of Melanesian languages of the northern coast of the mainland. Melanesian dialects, hâve proved 

 to be very homogeneous (Ray [1893, 755]), clearly showing that they belong to the same stock. Judging 



by this, one rnay suggest that the languages of which lists of 

 words hâve been given above, are Papuan. For it is charac- 

 teristic of the Papuan languages that they show little simi- 

 larity and apparently represent various, distinct, linguistic 

 stocks. The terras Papuan and Melanesian are hère used in 

 the sensé first indicated by Ray and Haddon [1891, 509, 

 note], to which, howëver, must be added, that the Tobâdi 

 people with a Melanesian tongue show physical features that 

 are Papuan. The linguistic boundaries therefore are no race 

 boundaries, as also remarked by Pôch [1905, 439]. 



From the Sëkâ tribe Moolenburgh [1904, 1S7] gave 

 a small vocabulary, and from the Môso tribe two young men 

 were met (fig. 202), but no words were gathered. 



As to the i 1 1 n e s s e s amongst the tribes which 

 the expédition met, it was chiefly wounds that came 

 to my notice. Wounds on the lower legs, resulting 

 from occasional hurts, are especially fréquent, as in 

 K. \V. Land (NACHRICHTEN [1890, 29]), in the case of 

 both sexes, and particularly with the inland tribes. 

 Thèse cause ulcers sometimes giving rise to buboes, 

 both aftenvards leaving deep, white scars, such as at 

 Humboldt Bay COMRIE [1877, 106] took for "unmis- 

 takeable évidence of syphilis", of which I could not 

 find a trace. Several men at Tobâdi had scars left 

 by bites from crocodiles, which not infrequently attack 

 the genitals. In Papua Tâlandjang, as in K. W. Land (NACHRICHTEN [1888, 233]), people pay 

 very little heed to thèse ulcers, although stiffness of a limb mav be the resuit ; I treated two 



Fig. 202. Youths of the Môso tribe. 



