This comparative vocabulary, some written phonetically, was compiled by American linguist Horatio Hale while in New South Wales c.1839. The book includes a large section of several pages comparing the grammar of the Kamilaroi and Wiradjuri languages, with perhaps hundreds of words, phrases and sentences given as examples. NOTE. In the following transcription I have substituted ng and U for a Greek v for the phonetic symbols, which I don’t have on my computer. There are probably some mistakes in transcription. United States Exploring Expedition: During the Years 1833-1842. Under the command of Charles Wilkes, USN. Vol. 7. Ethnography and Philology, By Horatio Hale. Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1846. There are copies in the Mitchell and Dixson Libraries, Sydney. [Hale 1839 (1846):479]. By Keith Smith. Checked and corrected by JS. Left KVS substitutions as he did them. -------------- THE EXPEDITION The United States Exploring Expedition, commonly known as the Wilkes Expedition, included naturalists, botanists, a mineralogist, taxidermists, artists and a philologist, and was carried by the USS Vincennes (780 tons) and Peacock (650 tons), the brig Porpoise (230 tons), the store-ship Relief, and two schooners, Sea Gull (110 tons) and Flying Fish (96 tons). Leaving Hampton Roads on August 18, 1838, it stopped at the Madeira Islands and Rio de Janeiro; visited Tierra del Fuego, Chile, Peru, the Tuamotu Archipelago, Samoa, and New South Wales; from Sydney sailed into the Antarctic Ocean in December 1839 and reported the discovery "of an Antarctic continent west of the Balleny Islands"; visited Fiji and the Hawaiian Islands in 1840, explored the west coast of the United States, including the Strait of Juan de Fuca, Puget Sound, the Columbia River, San Francisco Bay and the Sacramento River, in 1841, and returned by way of the Philippines, the Sulu Archipelago, Borneo, Singapore, Polynesia and the Cape of Good Hope, reaching New York on June 10, 1842. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Wilkes> ---------------- Horatio Hale (May 3, 1817 - December 28, 1896), American ethnologist, was born in Newport, New Hampshire. ... Hale graduated in 1837 from Harvard University, and he served as the philologist for the United States Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842, which was led by Lt. Charles Wilkes. ... Of the reports of that expedition Hale prepared the sixth volume, Ethnography and Philology (1846), which is said to have laid the foundations of the ethnography of Polynesia. ... He made many valuable contributions to the science of ethnology, attracting attention particularly by his theory of the origin of the diversities of human languages and dialects".... He was, moreover, the first to discover that the Tutelo language of Virginia belonged to the Siouan family, and to identify the Cherokee language as a member of the Iroquoian family of speech. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio_Hale> --------------- ==================== JS LIST LOCATION: Extract in JS thin Wiradhuri white-coloured ringbinder