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CHANGE OF NATIVES' NAMES.

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he was, with a host of white servants who could not catch the long and liquid words of the native tongue, it might seem necessary to make a change, but hardly to form so absurd a catalogue as he did. It would be interesting to know whose philological and literary assistance he obtained; some one of his convict servants might have been an M.A. But he evidently imagined he had performed an important and useful service, making it the subject of a special report on September 14th, 1836. He presented two lists—his own nomenclature, classical and grand; and beside it, the aboriginal, or the absurd English, name.

These are the males:—

AdolphusTommyHannibalParley
AlexanderLong BillyHectorHector
AlphonsoBig JemmyIsaacProblattener
ArthurJemmyJosephRoss's Jemmy
AlbertWarneeJamesJessey's Father
AlphaDoctorMiltonPenemeroic
AchillesRowlebaumaMatthewJacky
AugustusBenNimrodKangaroo Billy
AndrewDray's JerryNapoleonJacky
AlgernonCharleyNeptune
AjaxMoultchelargeneNoemy
AlfredBig BillyOmegaBallywinny
BonaparteLittle JackyPeter PindarPeter
BenjaminBen''PhilipBung's Jacky
ColumbusLenerugirinRodneyLarmodrick
ChristopherDickRomeoTomten
ConstitutionBig JackyRobertBig Tenry's Jemmy
DanielGoannahWilliam RobinsonPennebricks
DavidDavid''George RobinsonGeorge
EdwardLittle BillySamuelKit's Jemmy
EdmundToneeTippoo SaibJacky
EugeneNicominicThomasHeedeivick
FrederickTommyWashingtonMackamee
FrancisBig Mary's JemmyKing WilliamGovernor
King GeorgeOld TomWalter George ArthurFriday
HenryHenry

The others were with but one name each: George, Davey, Peter, Thomas Thompson, Peter, Charley, Manune, Teddy. These were the fifty-nine males. The females were as follow:—

Queen AdelaideGovernor's LubraPrincess ClaraTeddeburric
Queen AndromacheLarrentongCatherineNarrucker
AmeliaKittanahPrinces CleopatraKyenrope
AgnesBlind PollDeborahLarmodrick
AnnDinahQueen EveleneWongeneep
Queen CharlotteBig TenryQueen ElizabethBig Bet
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