'bulla' is 1 believe a heritage from the indigenous Papuans. But 

 there is another term for tim running hi a north and south line 

 of varying width, from near the Gulf of Carpentaria to the Murray 

 viz. 'barkoola.' I have found what I believe to be the analogue 

 of this word in Central India in the Kuri language, and as cor- 

 h sides a cluster of corres- 



ponding words as follows : 



Head ... dui ... tiirtoo 



Man koi-A km-na, kore, &c., a common Australian form along the 



line indicated, though displaced immediately 



about the Darling by a local word ' Wimbeen.' 



The Indian words are from Hunter's Comparative Dictionary of Non- 



The last resemblance that I shall mention is the occurrence in 

 both Dravidian* and Australian languages of a negative miperative 

 or prohibitive particle. For instance in the Kabi dialect, most 

 referred to because most familiar to the writer, with the imperative 

 when prohibitive the word or particle ' bar ' is used preceding the 

 verb, on all other occasions other negatives are employed. This 

 is a feature of South Sea Island languages also. If there were 

 only one or two resemblances like those enumerated, between the 

 two classes of languages they might be passed over as purely co- 



blances kre'too numerous and striking to be so lightly dealt with 

 and can only be referred to a strong family likeness. As more 

 Australian data becomes accessible there is no doubt t^"^ "" 



be found that Dravidii 

 «lly explanatory 



The fnn.u. Vu.t, , 



will well repay for the labour, and it may 

 n and Australian languages may be mutu- 



