besought the two hero-buzzards to rule over them. But the strangers declined the honour, and mounting up from the midst of the admiring throng, rose higher and higher until they were fixed in the evening sky as the two brightest stars that circle round the South Pole.

2. Words and Grammatical Structure in Different Languages.

(See Table, p. 284.)

After repeated and prolonged interviews with Andrew Hume, from whom I took down the words in the eighth column, I believe his statements are in the main true; that he has lived with many tribes to the westward of the Balonne, and has given me words spoken by them. In some instances he has perhaps supplied the want of memory by the exercise of his imagination; and such words as "milkiwīna" (milky weaner) for mother, suggest the probability of spurious coinage. In some words he used the letter s, a sound unknown in Eastern Australia. This sound he may have taken by mistake for that of th, or j, or rr, as the colonists have called Breeja "Breeza”, Yărr "Yass", and Walger "Walgett". This man may render valuable service to the cause of science, if he revisits, as proposed, the spot where he saw a solitary member of some lost exploring party among the blacks, and brings back the buried journal of the explorers. I cannot throw off the impression that there is truth in his narrative, though it may be coloured by some invention. He gave me, besides the list of words, the following sentences:

Come here,

Let us go,

Go on,

Sit down,

Where have you been?

I have been out on the plain,
Give me a drink,

dīmuarha or daizguneraha.
yanika narnig.

gunar.

taikar digua.

kaibŭgurer.

we para ledun.
kālin kulan dhūriz.

Of four brothers the first is "thulguiana"; the second, "guluizindai"; the third, " mindulai"; the fourth, "thābutu". According to Hume the language spoken on the Nogoa River is "Tulumoa". In this language the sun is "dūniba"; the moon, "keluna"; a black fellow, "üpündha"; a woman, "inator".

The language of the Culgoa is "Muruworri"; a language near the north coast is "Kalinupa"; and that of the western coast is "Theluwupăna". Mr. Richard Thatcher, now of Musclebrook in this colony, who resided for some months at the Pearl fisheries on the north-west coast, gives (in the Sydney Morning Herald of 19th July, 1871) the following words (on p. 289), as spoken on that coast, from Tien-Tsin Creek, Butcher's Inlet, or Port Walcott, to eastward some fifty miles.