APPENDIX I.-VOCABULARY OF ABORIGINAL WORDS-continued. *Language of this tribe called akoonkool; sub-tribe, jimmy; locality, north of Palmer River, Queensland. muthar. keen. pirre thugga. crammer, ? woora. gunkulewa. + Language of Mycoolon nearly similar to Lower Flinders Myappe, only put down to show the variations; the Mycoolon words were given by a more intelligent and reliable black than the Myappe. the Myappe, was stupid and hard to understand. "Hector," the former (Mycoolon), reared up with whites. "Jacky." walkoorah naljah oinyah.. banber oinyak.. ameengum gootchalo ballanbo wonto. ooranda walangoonda ohaminda APPENDIX II. Remarks on the Class Systems collected by Mr. Palmer. By A. W. HOWITT, F.L.S. THE class divisions which Mr. Palmer has collected are some of the links of a chain which extends across the Australian continent, binding together the various Australian aboriginal communities. The connection of these different class systems with each other is not at first sight apparent, unless when, as in the cases given by Mr. Palmer, they are accompanied by direct evidence from native informants that two or more of them are regarded as the equivalents of each other. When, however, a greater number of class systems are collected and compared systematically with each other, their connection becomes more evident, and the dialectic identity or the equivalence of names may often be established. In order to show this, as regards the classes given by Mr. Palmer, I propose to interpolate in his series certain classsystems which I have obtained from other correspondents, and thus to render the chain somewhat more connected and complete : 1 Established by the inquiries of Mr. C. E. Doyle, late of Kunopia, N.S.W. VOL. XIII. 2 B 1 Communicated by Mr. J. Brooke, N. M. Police, Queensland. 1 Communicated by Mr. J. C. Muirhead, Queensland. 2 See p. 306, ante. 3 Communicated by Mr. Jno. Lett, Burke River, Queensland. Mr. Cameron states that Kilpara is the equivalent of Kubi Muri, and Muquara of Ipai-Kumbo. The next tribe to the north-eastward of the Ta-ta-thi was one having the Kamilaroi class names. 1 Communicated by Mr. W. O'Donnell, Cooper's Creek, Queensland. 2 Communicated by the Rev. H. Vogelsang, Kopperamana, South Australia. 3 Communicated by Mr. A. L. P. Cameron, Mulurulu, N.S.W. |