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1777. fame time, ferve to fix another point, if Captain Cook and 
January Captain Fumeaux have not already decided it, that New 
Holland is no where totally divided by the fea into illands, 
as fome have imagined *. 
As the New Hollanders feem all to be of the fame extrac¬ 
tion, fo neither do I think there is any thing peculiar in 
them. On the contrary, they much referable many of the 
inhabitants whom I have feen at the illands Tanna and 
Mallicolla. Nay, there is even fome foundation for hazard¬ 
ing a luppofition, that they may have originally come from 
the fame place with all the inhabitants of the South Sea. 
For, of only about ten words which we could get from them, 
that which exprefies cold , differs little from that of New 
Zealand and Otaheite; the firft being Mallareede , the fecond 
Makkareede , and the third Mareede. The reft of our very 
fcanty Van Diemen’s Land Vocabulary is as follows : 
Quadne, 
A woman . 
Everai, 
The eye. 
Muidje, 
The nofe . 
Kamy, 
The teeth , mouth , or tongue. 
Laerenne, 
A j'mall bird ., a native of the woods here. 
Koygee, 
The ear. 
Noonga, 
Elevated fears on the body. 
Teegera, 
To eat . 
Togarago, 
I mujl be gone, or, I will go. 
Their pronunciation is not difagreeable, but rather quick; 
though not more fo than is that of other nations of the 
South Sea; and, if we may depend upon the affinity of lan- 
* Dampier feems to be of this opinion. Vol. iii. p. 104. 125. 
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