NOMENCLATURE. 
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long resident among the same natives, present many 
difficulties, and lead to many mistakes, amongst casual 
inquirers, or those whose pursuits do not keep them 
long at the place of their inquiries. There are 
others which are still more difficult to be understood, 
from the almost utter impossibility of learning (with 
any reasonable sacrifice of time) the language with 
sufficient accuracy to enable the inquirer thoroughly 
to comprehend the meanings of the proper names, 
and deduce the roots from which they are derived. 
Even among the Adelaide tribes, where there ap- 
pears to be a greater uniformity in the system of 
nomenclature than I have met with any where else, 
and where Mr. Moorhouse has devoted more time 
and attention to the subject than perhaps any other 
person, there are still difficulties and uncertainties. 
Thus an Adelaide boy about the age of ten, is called 
by the name of Koar (the crow), from early infancy, 
but between ten and twelve, after undergoing one of 
their ceremonies, the name was changed to Mannara, 
(which I believe means the crow's nest). According, 
however, to the usual system adopted, this boy's 
name ought to have remained Koar, until, by be- 
coming a married man and a father, it gave way to a 
paidronymic. 
There is another subject somewhat analogous to 
that of nomenclature, and about which still less is 
known ; — that of every native adopting some object 
in creation as his crest, or tiende. The same thing 
is noticed by Captain Grey in his narrative (vol. ii. 
p. 228). 
