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Rh Pimpi, m., ashes.

Pippita, m., a small hawk; so called from its cry.

Pirama and wommarakán, m., a wild duck and drake.

Piriwȧl, m., a chief or king.

Pirrita, m., au oyster which grows on the mangrove tree.

Pittóġ; talowai; m., two kinds of roots of the arum species; the taro of Tahiti.

Poito, m., the smoke of a fire.

Póno, m., dust.

Poribai, m., a husband.

Porikunbai, m., a wife.

Porowi, on., an eagle.

Porun, m., a dream or vision.

Porun-witilliko, OT.,to dream.

Pukko, m., a stone axe. Pulli, m., salt. Pulli, VI., voice, language. Puna, m., sea sand. Punbug, m., sea-slug, blubber. Puniial, m., the sun. Piirai, m., earth, land, the world. Purreag, m., day. Purramai, m., a cockle. Purramaiban, m., an animal

like a ferret, but amphibious ;

it lives on cockles. Purrimunkan, m., a sea-salmon.

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Taiyol, m., the youngest male. Tembiribeen, in., a death adder.

The aborigines, when bitten,

usually suck the wound, as a

remedy. Tibbin, in., a bird. Tibun, m, a bone. Ti^ko, m., a bitch. Tiral, m., a bough of a tree. Tirriki, m., the flame of fire ;

the colour red.

��Tirril, ni., the tick, a voTiomons insect in this country that enters the skin of young dogs, pigs, lambs, cats, and is fatal, but not to man ; it is exactly similar in size and shape to the English tick, but its effects are soon discovered ; for the animal becomes para- lyzed in its hind quarters, sickness comes on, and death follows in two or three days after the paralysis has taken place.

Tokoi, m., night.

Topig, m., a mosquito.

Tordg-gun, m., the black whale ; this the blacks eat, whilst the sperm whale is not eaten.

Tukkara, m., winter.

Tullokan, m., property, riches.

Tulmun, m., a grave.

Tulun, m., a mouse.

Tuukan, m., a mother, a dam.

Tunug, m., a rock, a stone.

Tupea-tarawog and ninag, m., names of the flat-head fish.

Turea, m., a bream-fish.

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Wairai, m., the spear for battle,

or for hunting.

Motig, m., the spear for fish. Waiydg, m., a sort of yam. Waliun, m., a crow ; from its

cry, wak-wak-wak. Warikal, m., a dog ; the species. Warikal and waiyi, m., the male

and female tame dog.

Yuki and mirri, m., the male and female native dog.

Murrogkai, m., the wild dog species, Waroi, m., the hornet. Waropara, m., the honeysuckle.

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