ed, and of
great importance in their researches into the origin of the various
nations that have been discovered, we took some pains to bring away such
a specimen of it as might, in a certain degree, answer the purpose, and
I shall now give an account how it was procured. If we wanted to know
the name of a stone, we took a stone up into our hands, and, as well as
we could, intimated by signs that we wished they should name it: The
word that they pronounced upon the occasion, we immediately wrote down.
This method, though it was the best we could contrive, might certainly
lead us into many mistakes; for if an Indian was to take up a stone, and
ask us the name of it, we might answer a pebble or a flint; so when we
took up a stone and asked an Indian the name of it, he might pronounce a
word that distinguished the species, and not the genus, or that instead
of signifying stone simply, might signify a rough stone, or a smooth
stone: However, as much as possible to avoid mistakes of this kind,
several of us contrived, at different times, to get from them as many
words as we could, and having noted them down, compared our lists; those
which were the same in all, and which, according to every one's account,
signified the same thing, we ventured to record, with a very few others,
which, from the simplicity of the subject, and the ease of expressing
our question with plainness and precision by a sign, have acquired equal
authority.

English. New Holland.

_The head_, Wageegee.
_Hair_, Morye.
_Eyes_, Meul.
_Ears_, Melea.
_Lips_, Yembe.
_Nose_, Bonjoo.
_Tongue_, Unjar.
_Nails_, Kulke.
_Sun_, Gallan.
_Fire_, Meanang.
_A stone_, Walba.
_Sand_, Yowall.
_A rope_, Gurka.
_A man_, Bama.
_Beard_, Wallar.
_Neck_, Doomboo.
_Nipples_, Cayo.
_Hands_, Marigal.
_Thighs_,