of the country. And if there be any force in this obferva-
tion, while it traces the origin of the people, it will, at the
fame time, ferve to fix another point, if Captain Coolc and
Captain Fourneaux have not already decided it, that New
Holland is no where totally divided by the fea into iflands,.
as fome have imagined
As the New Hollanders feem all to be of the fame extraction,
fo neither do I think there is- any thing peculiar in
them. On the contrary, they much referable many of the
inhabitants whom I have feen at the iilands I anna and
Manicola. Nay, there is even fome foundation for hazarding
a fuppofition, that they may have originally come from,
the fame place with all the inhabitants of the South Sea.
For, of only about ten words which we could get from
them, that which expreffes cold, differs little from that of
New Zealand and Otaheite; the firft being Mallareede, the
fecond Makka’reede, and the third Ma’reede. The reft of
our very fcanty Van Diemen’s Land Vocabulary is- as follows
:
Quadne, A-woman:
Eve’rai, The eye-.
Muidje, The nofe.
Ka’my, The teeth, mouth, or tongue:
Lae’renne, A fmall bird, a native of the -woods heres.
Koy’gee, The ear-
No’onga, Elevatedfears on the body.
Teegera,. To eat.
Toga’rago, I mufi begone, ox, I-will go.
Their pronunciation is not difagreeable, but rather quick,-
though not more fo than is that of other nations of the
* Dampier feems to. be o f this opinion. Vol. iii. p. 104. 125.
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