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Vocabulary of 
been given to most of the natural features of the country 
in a language more euphonious than their own. The 
Aborigines, on their part, were not slow to name the 
host of new objects poured upon them. The horse was 
called pindi nanto , the kangaroo from the pit; as his 
master was pindi meyu , the man from the pit. For the 
sound of his tramp heard far off over the arid ground, 
the verb bakkebahhandi was formed, from bakka , dry 
bark. # Karltaharltanya expressed the tolling of the 
church bell, from karlta, a cry. Kopurlo (properly, 
sea water), means intoxicating drink, of which they are 
fond, though not universally so. 
The bullet is parndapure , from parndendi , to crackle, 
and pure, a stone : gunpowder is tipogadla (afire-spark). 
Tindo serves for a watch, as well as for the sun. Our 
rice they call pindi pari (European maggots) ; and the 
flea, which was also imported, is pindi kudlo , the 
European louse. Yoiko mat Cany a, ship-master, is equi¬ 
valent to gentleman. 
Tobacco, of which they are fond, they call kappi (or 
emetic); probably from its first effects. Shcepi-kan - 
gallanyalla (sheep-mother) is the name of a shepherd ; 
perhaps, as a hunting tribe, they have no idea of so 
much care being bestowed upon animals not bound to 
the shepherd by some domestic tie. 
Probably the social instinct has never sunk to so low 
a pitch among any other tribe of mankind. A numerous 
list of words, which express family relationships, testifies 
that domestic society exists among them, and that alone. 
They have no chiefs—no judicial trials—no established 
laws; and we look in vain into their vocabulary for any 
terms answering to these notions. Weak, treacherous, 
and ungrateful as they are, it will be peculiarly difficult 
* Bakkebahhandi comes from bakhandi , to dig into the ground, 
as with the forefoot of a horse, a stick, &c,—T, 
