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PREPOSITIONS.
Ba, 'of [--deiloting possession,
" when used n-ith the personal
pronouns.
Birug, 'of, out of, from '; opposed
to lro-la &.
Ka, ' in,' or 'at' such a period;
as, tarai-ta yellanna-ka, ' in
another moon.'
ICa-ba, 'in, on, &'-a place; as,
Sydney-ha-ba, ' at Sydney.'
Kai,-the same meaning as tin ;
only tltis is nsed to personal
pronouns, but 'tin' goes
with nouns.
Kal, ' part of ' ; as, uuti-lial,
'of this, part of this, hereof.'
Katoa, ' with, ill company
m-it11,'-not instrumental.
KO, -10, -0, -ro, -to,-particles
denoting agency or instrumentalitr.*
Tba, 'ofy--the same as 'lp<
ut-used0111-y bith nouns.
KO-lz&, ' to, tokards, tendency
towards,'-opl~osed to birug.
JIurrariD;, 'into.'
&Iurru& 'within.'
Tin, ' from, on account of, for,
because of, in consequence
of.'
XTarrai, 'outside, without,'opposed
to 'within.'
" Expressed by with, by, fo~, bnt oilly when iustrunlental.
THE i8iom of the language is such, that senteuces connect with
sentences without the aid of coi~junctions, the subjunctire mood
answeriug all these purposes. The dual number a180 does away
with the necessity of using connectives to unite two expressions.
The followiny are the principal conjunctions, viz., gatus,
' aiid ' ; k u lli& 'because, for '; gali- ti$, 'therefore, on account
of this.' Bat the particles 'lest,' ' unless,' ' that,' and the disjunctive~,
ere expressed by modifications of theverb in the subjuncti~e
mood, as will be shotru in the lllustratire sentences.
INTERJECTIONS.
XOTE.--The folloming are nsed under the cifculllstances mentioned.
A, ' hearlien ! lo ! behold ! ' ICatio-katia,of pail], anguish.
Ela-berira, of m-oncler, surprise, Wau, ' attention ! ' a call to
astonishment. attend.
Ginoa, of snlutaiion at parting; IVi-11-i, of aversion.
as, ' farenell.' Yapallun, of sorrow; 'alas !'
CHAPTER IT.
(1) UYTIIOLOGY.
G aL 6 n ; k t~ rim a; .I)&.,* bones put through the septum of the
nose for ornament.
G 6 r r o ; p u m m e r i ; y o 11 e i, qn., rarieties of grass-tree. Ta
form the native spears, pieces of the flower-stalks of this are
cemented together at the ends by a resinous substance nhich
exudes from the root; they are made from eight to twelve
feet long; a piece of hard mood foruls the last joint, on ~vhiclm
is cemented a splinter of pointed bone, a2 a barb. A deadly
weapon this is ; thrown by mealls of a lever nearly four feet
long, CJ ' w o m m a r a', which is held in the hand, and on it
the poisoned spear.
I( o in, Ti p p a li b 1, P 6 r r ri & are names of an imaginary malo
being, who has now, and has always had, the appearance of a.
black ; he resides in thick brushes or jungles ; he is seen occas-
ionally by day, but mostly at night. In general, he precedes
the coming of the natives from distant perts,\vhen they assemble
to celebrate certain of their ceremonies, as the hocking out of'
tooth in the mystic ring, or when ther are performing some
dance. He appears painted ~ ith pipe-clay, aild carries a firestick
in his haad; but generally it is the doctors, a kind of
magicians, who aloile perceive him, and to whom he says, ' Fea~ not; come and talk.' At other tiines 11e comes when the blacks
are asleep, and takes them up, as an eagle his prey, and carries
them away for a time. The shout of the surrounding ],arty often
makes him drop his burden; otherwise, heconveys them to his
fire-place in the bush, n-here, close to the fire, he deposits his
load. The person carried off tries to cry out, but canuot, feelinq
almost choked ; at dayliqht IC o i n disappears, and the blncli
finds himself conveyed safely to 111s own fire-side.
KO po r 6 m 6 n, the name of another imaginary being, n-hose
trill in the bnsh frequently alarms the blacks in the night.
When he overtakes a native, he conlmands him to exchange
cudgels, giving his own which is extremely large, and desiring
the black to talie a first blow at his head, which he holds do\~11
for that purpose?; after this he smites aud kills the person
with one blow, skewers him with the cudgel, carries him off,
roasts, and then eats him.
* The m, throughoi~t, stands for meaning.
f Tllis is a oolumou mode of duelling among the blacks.--ED.