34 BEACH-LA-MAR. 
along 
13. to. 
he speak along this fella Adam. L 
363. 
one fella tree he tambo along you 
altogether. L 363. 
Eve she come along Adam. L 363. 
she talk along boy. L 363. 
get to hell along scrub. L 364. 
go along scrub. L 364. 
go alonga home. W 349. 
make rope fast along head. V 254. 
14. with. 
go along my man. V 252. 
15. all along same as: toresemble. The 
value of along does not appear in 
comparison with the simple all 
same. 
altogether adjectively in the sense of all, 
everything, without suggestion of 
grammatical number. 
close up altogether along this fella 
garden. L 363. 
we buy yam altogether: all you have. 
15. 
Adverbially. 
1. wholly, quite. 
one fella tree he tambo along you 
altogether. L 363. 
god big fella belong white man him 
fella hemake’maltogether. L 363. 
2. unanimously. 
what for you speak three year? Very 
good you speak three moon. Sup- 
pose you no speak three moon 
altogether, boy he stop Queensland 
three year. No good. W 373. 
3. altogether—no: not at all. 
altogether you boy belong Solomons 
you no savvee white man. L 362. 
before long time altogether no place 
he stop. L 363. 
and conjunction. 
pappa belong me he go finish yes’er- 
day, andI bring himhead. G223. 
more better you come out and you 
get water. Se 383. 
he make’m one fella man, and he 
put’m along garden. L 363. 
another of diversity in general. 
another fellow man. Se 444. 
another kind of: different. V 252. 
savvy another kind: to know better. 
he small now, bymbye he big he savy 
that another kind. Se 623. 
apple the determining characters appear to 
be rotundity and thin skin. 
and god he speak ‘‘you been eat’m 
this fella apple?’ L 363. 
Used also of the malay-apple, the 
rose-apple, the mammy-apple, and 
the onion, the latter being apple 
belong stink. 
around see also round. 
one big fennis all around garden. L 
364. 

as all along same as. V 252. 
This is the sole mention of as; it sug- 
gests the decadence of a jargon bent 
on parsing and consequent destruc- 
tion. 
oe 
bad the opposite of good and well. 
I. you very bad man, too much gammon 
blackfellow. Ro 252. 
he come back because of bad road. 
R 136. 
you give me bad word. V 252. 
he feel something bad in heart: angry. 
V 252. 
inside bad: grieved. V 253. 
bad inside: sorry. V 254. 
2. to make bad: to do harm to. 
I think that fellow he make bad for 
misinari. G 232. 
3. ill, sick. 
him fellow belly go bad: to have a 
stomach ache. 
bal bowels. (Laur, Lambell, King, Lamassa, 
bald; Efaté, bwala.) 
woman he hear him, bal belong him 
he move. SG 123. 
be no be fraid. SG 24. 
This is the sole instance of the sub- 
stantive verb in the literature of 
the subject; be is, nevertheless, 
very frequently in use, this being a 
quite natural result of the cheerful 
custom of the sailors to address the 
islanders in picturesquely rein- 
forced imperatives. 
beat heart beat hard: excited. V 253. 
A suspiciously accurate statement; in 
Beach-la-mar all locutions involv- 
ing the heart seem to be recent ac- 
quisitions from the store of knowl- 
edge acquired by the Polynesian 
preachers, 
because of on account of. 
he come back because of bad road: 
said of a yam which comes out of 
the ground. R 136. 
The precision of the preposition of is 
out of harmony with the jargon, 
and Mr. Ray has not included it 
specifically in his vocabulary 
thereof. 
bee one time Lamanian man he keep a bee 
there; now I think the bee he 
clear out. G 243. 
For a second reference to this exotic 
insect example of unstimulating 
industry see sugar-bag. 
been the common device to express past 
time of action. 
you been take me along three year. 
W 373- : 
you been eat’m this fella apple? 
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