20 SISSANO. 
54. lontamin sister. 89. siin pudenda muliebria. 
55. mal perineal band. 90. solpenbal cf. tur solpenbal. 
56. man bird. 91. suk nose. 
a. man bal balus pigeon. 92. talél shell bell. 
b. man doptin bird’s egg. 93. tamben cf. tur tamben. 
57. mangganton reinforcing strip on bow 94. taméng woman. 
and stern posts of canoe. 95. (tamin N: taméng F). 
58. mangobu stone awl. 96. tapel wooden dish. 
59. mas6n cassowary-feather headdress. 97. tapo crocodile. 
60. moti small hand drum. 98. taweluktig eye. 
61. natu child. 99. tenan mother. 
62. nau salt water. 100. tin penis. 
63. néu coconut. ° 1o1. tO sugar-cane. 
64. nibak head. 102. tur arrow. 
65. nirepok ear. tur gel arrow with broad smooth tip 
66. (niu N: néu F). of bamboo. 
67. (no N: 4nd F). tur solpenbal fish arrow with three 
68. (oh N: ol F). points. 
69. ol pot. tur tamben arrow with barbs. 
70. olén sword. 103. (turén N: turién F) 
71. omuterok fringed neck ornament. 104. turién bow. 
72. op6n belly armor. 105. ull bread fruit. 
73. pipip butterfly. 106. verén Casuarina. 
74. po areca nut. 107. Viti hand drum. 
75. poon island. 108. vOptin penis calabash. 
76. pul pig. 109. vum plantation. 
77. rain drinking-water. 110. VUS rain. 
78. ranran necklace of black fruits. III. wanan brother. 
79. (rau N: 4rau F). 112. weliak tongue. 
80. rebin testes, spirit. 113. wepernadk knee. 
81. (rein N: rain F). 114. wepok fist. 
82. remir hair 115. wesch paddle. 
83. (ripin) cf. aieripin. 116. wok boat with outrigger. 
84. rives stirring ladle. 117. word man. 
85. saboche tobacco. 118. (wul N: bul F). 
86. (sebét) cf. aisebdt. 119. Wun married person. 
87. seéhl basket. wun-—damin wife. 
88. sel stone. wun-—woru husband. 
sel kabon sago pounder. 120. yaim spear. 
There is a wide interval between the first list of words collected by 
the explorer and the dictionary of any speech. At the beginning there 
is a series of possibilities of error which by now have become familiar. 
At greater length and in more general terms than here seems necessary 
I have discussed these pitfalls of the vocabulist in my recent work 
“The Subanu,” at page 45. 
A common type of such error lies in the fact that the inquirer into 
the unknown speech knows quite definitely what he asks. ‘The party of 
the second part understands it to apply to something quite different, 
for the aim of the inquisitive forefinger is not always true. I suspect 
error of this source in two entries of this BOSSE of words which 
Neuhauss has provided— 
eliak teeth weliak tongue. 
The vocables here proposed approximate as closely as do the physical 
entities assumed to be denominated, the sole difference subsisting in 
an initial modifier. As to the value of this initial we are not informed; 
it may be the German w, therefore a light labial intermediate in the 
