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Numerals. 

 One, millan ; two, bullar ; several, burala. 



See the vocabulary of Yualeai words at the end of this 

 article. 



2 — The Pikumbil Language. 

 The Pikumbil tribes are located on the Weir and Mac- 

 intyre Rivers, Queensland; they adjoin the Yualeai on the 

 east, and speak a dialect of the same tongue. Their 

 initiation ceremonies 1 and divisional systems 2 are the same 

 as the-Kamilaroi, who adjoin them on the south. 



I formerly resided some years in Goondiwindi, Queens- 

 land, in the Pikumbil territory, and had exceptional facili- 

 ties for studying the geographic range of the dialects of 

 their language. Travelling on one occasion from Goondi- 

 windi to Miles, Gayndah and Maryborough, and returning 

 by Ipswich and Leyburn, I found the fundamental elements 

 of the native speech throughout was essentially the same, 

 although differing more or less in vocabulary. 



The initiation ceremonies 3 of the Dippil, Turubul and 

 other tribes in the country just referred to are described 

 in a paper contributed by me to the Anthropological Society 

 at Washington, U.S.A. Particulars of their social organi- 

 zation 4 are given in articles I communicated to this Society 

 in 1898, and also to the American Philosophical Society at 

 Philadelphia the same year. Rev. Wm. Ridley gives a 

 brief vocabulary of Pikumbil words. 5 



1 "The Bora of the Karailaroi Tribes," Proc. Roy. Soc, Victoria, Vol. 

 ;x., N.S., pp. 137-173. 



2 " The Totemic Divisions of Australian Tribes/' Journ. Eoy. Soc. 

 N. S. Wales, Vol. xxxi., pp. 156-171. 



3 " The Toara Ceremony of the Dippil Tribes of Queensland," American 

 Anthropologist, Vol. n., N.S., pp. 139-140. 



* "Australian Divisional Systems," Journ. Eoy. Soc. N. S. Wales, Vol. 

 xxxii., pp. 81-82; "Divisions of Queensland Aborigines," Proc. Amer. 

 Philos. Soc, Vol. xxxvu., pp. 328-331. 



5 " Kamilaroi and Other Australian Languages," (Sydney, 1875), pp. 

 59 - 60. 



