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36 I first went among the Murray blacks they used the word Murra for the hand. A man died who was called Murra muto (or bad hand), having only one finger on each hand. The blacks then changed the word Murra for Mam bawja. This very practice would no doubt much assist, in the course of years, to change a language, while its construction remained the same."