Crab : Algaura : - : Meir : -.
Dog : Melinga : - : Mugki : Dudah.
Ear : Bangua : - : Alayjar : Zungah.
Eye : Ummera : Mical : Ira : Mael.
Hair : Brailma : Guarshiel : Angbal : Cutap.
Hand : - : Guian : - : -.
Stone : - : Lowheil : - : -.
Tree : Urmingua : - : Ojalli : Boono.
Teeth : Emburge : - : Aujije : Nalgo.
Water : - : Kararback : - : Kaaby.

DIFFICULTY OF UNDERSTANDING THE NATIVES.

The great difference between the words at Shoal Bay and Port Darwin, must
now be apparent to the reader; a more extended acquaintance with the
aboriginal inhabitants of Australia, has shown that many words put down
by us as meaning a certain thing, signify in reality, "What do you mean?"
"I do not understand"--which shows at once the great difficulty of
arriving at the truth. This must often be the case; for what is more
natural, than that when a savage is asked the meaning of a thing, and
knows not, but that he should express his ignorance? How often this
expression of ignorance has been registered as the denomination of some
animal or thing, we leave the reader to conjecture. Moreover, there are
many words totally obliterated from their dialects, which thus undergo
constant alteration. This in part arises from the circumstance of their
never mentioning the name of a deceased person, who has perhaps been
called after a tree, bird, or animal; which then receives another
appellation, the old one passing away. From the few words given of the
respective dialects of Port Essington and Swan River, they would appear
essentially to differ, and from what has since come under my own