IN AUSTRALIA PHILOLOGICALLY EXAMINED, 125 
ae on his perilous adventure from South Australia _— the 
t to Western Australia. In this last instance Gaippe a 
as seen we; but this is in strict accordance with the phonetic laws 
which have already been so frequently exemplified. In the labial 
letters we run down the scale thus: ba, pa, wa. ut this is abun- 
dantly shown by other examples. In South Australia there is 
the common form, co-wie, water, spelt also ko-we, kau-wi, ko-wee, 
ko-we, kau-we. At Port Lincoln the two forms are found, namely, 
ka-pi and ka-uo, lake, cope-cope or gope-gope is the same word, and 
the lake is so called because it drains the waters of the district. 
The common form, coo-wee, in South Australia, use 
question arises, can there be any possible connection? Considering 
the ee, of dialects throughout Australia, how has this one 
form of call succeeded in establishing itself among so many tribes? 
In the sandy se of South Australia, when an anxious search 
for water was successful, the loud and joyful cry to the pit 
of the tribe at a distance would really and literally be so-wee— 
water! Indeed, in ordinary course, we have the record <9 some- 
thing of the kind. Bisho op Salvado narrates how he and his 
company were disappointed by not ware? water where it was 
expected, and had to spend the night in a very uncomfortable 
anner. Next morning an aboriginal techie guided him to 
another place where water might be found ; but here, too, there 
was none. Still a third place was sought ; ‘and here the precious 
element was obtained. After the manner ‘of the savages, he says, 
ere was now sounded the loud Om, as he spells it, to those who 
were behind. The word meant “ater,” as well as “we are here.’ 
But returning from this Senshi. it remains to notice that 
appears to have taken place in other parts of the world. Thus 
the Latin ag-ua, ah-wa, onde have all the appearance of being a 
combination of the same two roots, | for we have seen that in 
Europe these two roots are widely ributed in the names of 
streams. In the combined form io they appear to have supplied 
Gaul are adduced as containing the root aqua as the eae ' 
_— shore be the. same petierrinareans of PEN eats labial 
in aqua, for the aspirate hi is closely akin to the gutturals. The 
eubject of a plurality o meaning water, and 
up one name applied to water in some shape, will receive — 
illustration as we proceed. 
