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head more idiomatically coconut. 
he go finish yes’erday and I bring him 
head. G 223, 198. V 254. 
hear white man he hear him. SG 24, 123. 
hear um sing out, by-n’-by hear um 
plenty smell. G 259. 
heart these are all derived from the Torres 
Straits region and impress me as a 
recent refinement due to missionary 
teaching; itis not the heart but the 
liver which is held by the islanders 
to be the seat of the emotions. 
let go heart: to covet. V 253. 
heart belong him all same fire: to be 
enraged. V 253. 
heart beat hard: to be excited. V 
253. 
take cold heart: to be mild tempered. 
¥ 253. 
I like you proper with my heart 
inside. V 253. 
heart along him think. V 254. 
heave to cast, to throw. 
heave up: to vomit. 
heavy 
eye along him heavy: to be sleepy. 
V 254 
skin belong me heavy: to be thirsty. 
V 254. 
hell cf. go-to-hell. 
wail like hell: to be angry. R115. 
cry like hell. V 254. 
V 254. 
they fright like hell. L 363. 
get to hell. L 364. 
make hell of a noise. R 109. 
here better this place. 
here no kaikai. SG ro. 
hide they go hide along scrub. L 363. 
him common gender. 
me cross long woman me rauss him. 
SG 109. 110, 123. 
big fellow bokkus you savvee him? 
medicine belong him. SG 123. 
possessive. 
I bring him head. G223. It is 
equally explicable as objective 
aspect. 
himself inside tell himself: to consider. 
V 253. 
hold on to wait. V 254. 
hook it torun away. V 253. 
hospital me takeum cutter big fellow hos- 
pital. G 1098. 
hot cook him small hot: partly done. V 
253. 
house you go long house belong me. Re 
114, W 290. 
house paper: government office. 
W o2. 
how how much you pay? W 144. 
humbug 
make him humbug: to influence with 
charms. V 253. 
humbug him he no go: to prevent 
from going. 
humbug 
The latter sense of humbug I have 
found also in the vocabulary of a 
negro boatman on Crow Lane, 
Bermuda, in the phrase ‘“‘to hum- 
bug from doing,’ apparently to 
prevent through the interposition 
of obstacles more annoying than 
serious. 
hump this seems to me the more frequent 
term for carry, and I recall the ex- 
pressions ‘‘to hump a load,’ ‘‘to 
hump a pickaninny;’ perhaps it 
may prove to refer to such carrying 
as is done on the body rather than 
in the arms or hands, the island 
languages most uniformly making 
such distinction. In Australia the 
phrases ‘‘to hump one’s bluey (the 
blanket roll,)’”’ “‘tohumptheswag,”’ 
are common in the speech of 
bushmen. 
hurt why you stop him get hurt? W 152. 
I see me. 
yes, I killum all right. G 215, 223, 
232, 246. 
if see suppose. 
what for he do that if girl no want 
him. Se 567. 
this fellow kaikai you if he get chance. 
Wa 152. 
iguana the monitor lizard (Varanus). 
This name is common in Austral 
English in designation of any large 
lizard, often pronounced gowannow. 
in leg you got in one fellow box. G 260. 
half-way in sky. R ror. 
something bad in heart. V 252. 
inside jump inside: to be startled. R117. 
like milk inside. R ror. 
inside him he cross: to be angry. V 
252. 
have better class inside: appetite. 
V 252. 
feel another kind inside: to change 
the mind. V 252. 
inside tell himself: to consider. V 
252. 
he wild inside: to be enraged. V 253. 
inside bad: to be grieved. V 253. 
feel inside: to know. V 253. 
I like you proper with my heart in- 
side. V 253. 
he bad inside: to be sorry. V 254. 
think inside: to think. V 254. 
no speak out, keep himinside. V 254. 
island boy belong island he speak. W 373. 
all along same as island in the sky. 
V 252. 
jump jump inside: to be startled. R117. 
jump up: to rise. 
