Coman.
_Navel_, Toolpoor.
_Knees_, Pongo.
_Feet_, Edamal.
_Heel_, Kniorror.
_Cockatoo_, Wanda.
_The soal of the foot_ Chumal.
_Ankle_, Chongurn.
_Arms_, Aco, or Acol.
_Thumb_, Eboorbalga.
_The fore, middle, and ring fingers_, Egalbaiga.
_The little finger_, Nakil, or Ebornakil.
_The Sky_, Kere, or Kearre.
_A father_, Dunjo.
_A Son_, Jumurre.
_A male turtle_, Poinga.
_A female_, Mameingo.
_A canoe_, Marigan.
_To paddle_, Pelenyo.
_Sit down_, Takai.
_Smooth_, Mier Carrar.
_A dog_, Cotta, or Kota.
_A loriquet_. Perpere, or pier-pier.
_Blood_, Yarmbe.
_Wood_, Yocou.
_The bone in the nose_, Tapool.
_A bag_, Charngala.
_A great cockle_, Moingo.
_Cocos, Yams_, Maracatou.
New Holland. English
Cherr, } _Expressions, as we supposed, of_
Cherco, } _admiration, which they continually_
Yarcaw, } _used when they were_
Tut, tut, tut, tut, } _in company with us_.[97]
[Footnote 97: This table is exceedingly scanty and imperfect, and would
not have been given were it not thought proper, for a reason already
assigned, to preserve entire this early account of New Holland.--E.]
I shall now quit this country with a few observations relative to the
currents and tides upon the coast. From latitude 32 deg., and somewhat
higher, down to Sandy Cape, in latitude 24 deg. 46', we constantly found a
current setting to the southward, at the rate of about ten or fifteen
miles a-day, being more or less, according to our distance from the
land, for it always ran with more force in-shore than in the offing; but
I could never sat
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