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 56 of their barbs. This is one of those customs which seem to point to a superior system of polity, beyond anything to be expected among a people so immersed as the aborigines now are in ignorance and barbarism.

Mordăk, a.—Deep; steep, or high.

Mordakăkănan, a. v.—To drown.

Mordakălap—To be drowned.

Mordibăng, a.—Unable to do anything; whether from being tired, or any other cause of inability.

Mordo, s.—A mountain. See Kattamordo.

Morh-ragadăk, s.—To-morrow.

Moro, s.—Tail; Os coccygis, the lowest of the spinal vertebræ.

Morh-rogodo, s.—To-morrow.

Moroyt, a.—Stiff; hard as hard clay.

Morytch, a.—Absent.

Morryl. s.—A species of eucalpytus with a rough bark. It splits well for shingles. Found to the eastward.

Moyort, s.—A fish caught in fresh-water pools, by putting a quantity of brush-wood at one end of the pool, and pushing it out to the other, sweeping everything before it.

Moyran, s.—Grandfather; grandmother; grandchild. See Mon-yo for this word, as applied to women.

Munjardo, a.—Overturned; topsy-turvy.

Munjero, a.—Looking on the ground carelessly.

Mudurda, s.—A species of tea tree, or paper-bark tree.

Mulgan—(K.G.S.) Cold.

Mulli, s.—Gum found on the upper part of the Xanthorea flower-stem.

Mulmul—(K.G.S.) In parts.

Multchin, a.—Afraid.

Multchong, s.—A coward; a rascal.

Mulur, s.—A large lake. Fresh-water lakes are not numerous in the interior. A chain of them runs parallel to the coast for a long distance, a few miles back.

Mul-ya, s.—The nose.

Mul-yabin, a.—Offended; sulky.

Mul-ya bunan, or punăn, s.—The nostrils.

Mul-ya mel, s.—The countenance; literally, nose and eyes.

Mul-yak, s.—The first of anything; the commencement of an action; the head of a lake.

Mul yarijow, v.—To sneeze.

Mul-yaritch, s.—A sneeze; the act of sneezing.

Mul-yat, s.—The small bone of the kangaroo's leg, worn by youths through the cartilage of the nose, as a mark of their having attained the years of puberty.