118 R. H. MATHEWS. 
The Lo-rit-ya or Lo-ritch-a tribe adjoins the Ar-ran’-da 
on the west. Their country is approximately from the 
Musgrave Ranges, northerly via Lake Amadeus, to the 
Khrenberg Ranges. In 1900, [reported that the Lo-rit-ya 
were divided into four intermarrying sections, called 
Panungka, Koomara, Parulla and Bultara. I stated that 
the same organisation, with some slight modifications in 
the names of the four sections, as well as in the order of 
their intermarriage, extended westerly from Lake Amadeus 
across the State of Western Australia to the Indian Ocean. 
I also reported that the children took their descent through 
the mother.’ 
The LO-rit-ya, in common with the Ar-ran’-da and other 
neighbouring tribes, practice the rites of circumcision and 
subincision. Certain mutilations are also performed upon 
the young women, the result of which being that the 
vaginal orifice is permanently enlarged. Full particulars 
of all these rites, and of the impressive ceremonies con- 
nected with them, were communicated by me to the 
American Philosophical Society at Philadelphia in 1900.’ 
The grammatical structure of the Lo-rit-ya language is 
the same as that of the Ar-ran’-da. The nouns, pronouns, 
verbs and other parts of speech, are declined in a similar 
manner, and several words of their vocabulary are sub- 
stantially the same. I shall therefore content myself with 
giving a list of the pronouns, and a short vocabulary, both 
of which have been obtained direct from the natives by a 
throroughly capable correspondent residing in that district. 
Below is a table of the personal pronouns in the nominative 
case. The first person of the dual, as well as the first 
person of the plural, contains two distinct forms, one of 
which includes with the speaker the individual who is 
1 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc., Philadelphia, xxx1x., 89, with map. 
? Op. cit., pp. 622-638. 
