United States Exploring Expedition

By Horatio Emmons Hale

Subjects: Linguistics, North American Indian Languages, Pacific Area Languages, Scientific expeditions, United States Exploring Expedition (1838-1842), Ethnologie, Langues, Pacific Islanders, Human beings, Polynesian languages, Indiens, Oceanic languages, Chinook jargon, Australian languages, Indians of North America, Languages, Melanesian languages, Migrations, Chinook (Jargon), Ethnography, Ethnology

Description: Ethnography of Australian Aborigines; investigation of languages; comparative word list (33 items) of 9 languages of N.S.W.; phonology of Australian languages; comparative grammars of Awabakal (called Kamilaroi in error); obtained from Threlkeld and Wiradurei (from Rev. William Watson); morphology, vocabulary, sentence material.