14. Moon=_mang'ong_, Timbora; _meuc_, King George's Sound.
15. Sun=_ingkong_, Timbora; _coing_, Sydney.
16. Blood=_kero_, Timbora; _gnoorong_, Cowagary dialect of Australia.
17. Head=_kokore_, Timbora; _gogorrah_, Cowagary.
18. Fish=_appi_, Mangarei; _wapi_, Darnley Island.
It is considered, that this list, short as it, is calculated to contract the broad line of demarcation, implied in the following extract from Marsden:--
"We have rarely met with any Negrito language, in which many corrupt Polynesian words might not be detected. In those of New Holland or Australia, such a mixture is not found. Among them no foreign terms that connect them with the languages, even of other _Papua_ or Negrito countries, can be discovered; with regard to the physical qualities of the natives, it is nearly superfluous to state, that they are Negritos of the most decided class."
The multiplicity of languages, or dialects, spoken on the island Timor, has been noticed by most voyagers. Some have put the mutually unintelligible forms of speech as high as thirty. Unfortunately the details of this variety are not known. Such Timor vocabularies as we possess, represent the language of Koepang; the locality where the contact with the trading world both of the East and West, is greatest, _i.e._, with the Dutch and with the Malays. This makes the language Malay--though less Malay than the Malay of Sumatra, Celebes, and Borneo; the points wherein it differs being, frequently, points wherein it agrees with the Bima, Savu, and Endé, and other intermediate islands. Nevertheless, it is highly probable that the Timor of Koepang no more exactly represents the languages of some of the wilder mountaineers of the interior, than the Malay of Kedah exactly represents the languages of the Samang or Jokong.
When the wilder inhabitants are represented at all, they are represented as approaching the character of the Negro.
On the other hand some are fairer than the generality. Both these are phenomena that we have either seen before, or shall see in the sequel--in the Samang of Malacca, and the Dyaks of Borneo, as well as in Durville's Arafuras of Celebes.
In one particular village, near the north-eastern extremity, Mr. Earle found red hair, a specimen of which was in the possession of Dr. Prichard. In noting this, we must also note the habit of colouring the hair, which will be shown in the sequel to be a Papua custom.