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Home for Aborigines
Grafton
6-10.99
Dear Sir
I have already sent to Mr Parker
a list of names of places in the vicinity, and
am sending names of trees &c. to you
I would like, by your favor, to suggest to
the Anthropological Society, that if they wish for
accurate information, that they might send
their lists for each district, when collated,
for correction, to a person in each district,
who might be acquainted with the peculiarities
of aborigines language, and able to represent the
sounds in our letters. Otherwise, by what I have
seen, they are most likely to represent an
entirely new set of words as the aboriginal language.
The dialects differ very much.
Here are words current in this district used by different tribes
Water Nah-roo Goon
Fire Wah-gi Why-bur-ra
Opossum Coor-ah-gy Quian
Bear (Native) Dun-gein-uh Ombudgee
one syllable
Yes Nyee Yowi
No Bee-o-wee Yocum Wat-chee. Baal
Yours truly
F.C. Currey
Manager
The Police Magistrate
Grafton.