Item 03: 'The Aborigines of Australia. A Lecture by Wm. Ridley M.A.', 14 September 1864. - Page 37

*So in the tenses they have one past to signify a little while

ago, another for a long time since;   a future for tomorrow

another for a more distant day.   Ex gr. goalngain is

spoke today;    goalmien, spoke yesterday;   goallen

spoke long ago.   goalngari, will speak tomorrow,

goalle, will speak at some future time.

The three forms of the Imperative in Kamilarre

are singularly characteristic:   goalla, means

simply speak thou!   goallawa is emphatic -  

speak, you must and shall.   goalmia, speak

if you can, or  if you dare.   The irony which

is {ingrained?} in the Nature of the Murri finds

a word for itself in the verb