een mistaken. The language of Chalmers' Kabana is nearly the
same as that of a vocabulary collected by Mr. A. Giulianetti at the
village of Sikube in the Upper Vetapa or Vanapa valley, north of
Mount Lilley. This was published in 1898. [184]

A few words from the village of Kambisa, in Sirima (Chirima)
valley were published in the Annual Report on British New Guinea
for 1905-6, [185] and I have since been favoured by the compiler,
the Rev. P. J. Money, with a fuller list. The Rev. Father Egedi
published in 1907 a vocabulary of Fuyuge along with his account of
the Tauata or Afoa tribe. [186] Dr. Strong collected a vocabulary
from the natives of Korona, a village situated close to the head of
Galley Reach. This was collected with the help of a Motu-speaking
native, and contains a few apparently Melanesian words. Dr. Strong
was spontaneously told that these had been introduced from the coast
in quite recent times. (_Cf_. Sec. III.)

The words in the comparative vocabulary are taken from an extensive
collection in Mafulu by the Rev. Father Egedi. They represent the
same dialect as the Grammar in Appendix I.

That Mafulu, Kambisa, and Korona, with Sikube and Kabana, represent
the same language is plain.

The Kabana pronoun _nahu_, I, the Sikube _na(nio_) I, _nu_(_ni_) thou,
and the Kambisa _na_, I, _nu_, thou, _hu_, he, agree with the Fuyuge
_na, na(ni_), I, _nu, nu(ni_) thou, _u_, he. The Kabana _nauera_, mine,
is the Fuyuge _naula_. The Kambisa _nara-ndo_, mine, _nura-ndo_, thine,
_hura-ndo_ his, also show a suffix _ndo_ corresponding to Mafulu _ne_
in _naula(ne_), mine, _nula(ne_) thine, _ula(ne_) his, and in the
vocabulary the Kambisa suffix _nda_ corresponds to the Korona _de_ in
the word for "chest." There is, however, no evidence that the Korona
_de_ is equivalent to the Mafulu _ne_. The word given in Sikube for
"woman," _amuri_, is the Fuyuge plural _amuli_, "women."

A few other likenesses appear, as _e.g._, Kambisa suffix _ng_
represents Mafulu _me, ne_; Kambisa _fa_, the Fuyuge _ve_; Kambisa _a_,
Korona _la_, Mafulu _le_.

The following extract shows the likeness of the vocabulary. [187]

Mafulu. Kambisa. Sikube. Kabana. Korona.

Adze so so cho -- itau
Arm, hand -- ia ia ia ya
Belly ombo hombo -- habe obo
Bird nembe neba membe --