ENGLISH. PORT DALRYMPLE. BROWN & D. C.

_belly_ magueleni lomongui.

_bird_ iola oille.

_kangaroo_ taramei tara.

_lips_ mona mogudilia.

_nose_ medouer mugid.

_stone_ lenn parene loine.

_tooth_ iane canan.

_arms_ regoula rilia.

About thirty-five words are common to Lhotsky and the Vocabularies

of Brown and Dentrecasteaux. From the foregoing observations we may

conclude that for the whole of Van Diemen's Land (as far as represented

by the Vocabularies) the language is radically one.

Such are the groups as spread over limited areas and confined within

natural boundaries. The affinity of speech between different islands is

another question.

Preliminary to this we must eliminate the Malay from the Negrito. The

full knowledge that this has been done imperfectly invalidates all that

we have arrived at; so that, once for all, it may be stated, that what

is asserted respecting the amount of words common to two localities is

asserted subject to the condition of their being true Negrito and not

Malay.

_Andaman and Samang._--Few words in common; one coincident, and that

borrowed in all probability from a third language.

_New Guinea and Waigioo._ By Waigioo is meant the Waigioo of Arago, and

the Undetermined Vocabulary of Dentrecasteaux. They have about forty

words in common, and the following are coincident:--

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