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thofe natives who lived at Port Stephens, and to the fouthward of 

 Botany Bay (about Adventure Bay), as well as on the banks of the 

 Hawkefbury. People from the northward had been met with, who 

 could not be exactly underftood by the Sydney natives ; but this is 

 not fo wonderful, as that people living at the diftance of only fifty or 

 fixty miles mould call the fun and moon by different names : fuch, 

 however, was the fact. 



A fenfible difference was often remarked on hearing the fame word 

 founded by two people ; and, in fact, they have been obferved fome- 

 times to differ from themfelves, fubftituting the letter b for p, and g for 

 £, and vice verfa. In their alphabet they have neither f nor v ; and 

 fome of their letters would require a new character to afcertain them 

 precifely. The following are The Words of a Song : 



Mang-en-ny-wau-yen-go-nah, bar-ri-boo-lah, bar-re mah. 



This they begin at the top of their voices, and continue as long as 

 they can in one breath, finking to the loweft note, and then rifing 

 again to the higheft. The words are the names of deceafed perfons. 



E-i-ah wan-ge-wah^ chian-go, *wan-de-go : the words of another 

 fbng, fung in the fame manner as the preceding, and of the fame 

 meaning. 



•"TWifW I IMHf 1 "" ~ 



The foregoing account of the natives of New South Wales, with 

 their cuftoms and language, might have been much enlarged, had not 

 the Author chofen to mention only fuch facTs refpecTing which, after 

 much attention and inquiry, he could fatisfy his mind. That they are 

 ignorant favages cannot be difputed ; but it is hoped that they do not & 

 in the foregoing pages, appear to be wholly incapable of becoming 

 one day civilized and ufeful members of fociety. 



