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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,[original text is deleted]
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.