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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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