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:—
Adolphus | Tommy | Hannibal | Parley |
Alexander | Long Billy | Hector | Hector |
Alphonso | Big Jemmy | Isaac | Problattener |
Arthur | Jemmy | Joseph | Ross's Jemmy |
Albert | Warnee | James | Jessey's Father |
Alpha | Doctor | Milton | Penemeroic |
Achilles | Rowlebauma | Matthew | Jacky |
Augustus | Ben | Nimrod | Kangaroo Billy |
Andrew | Dray's Jerry | Napoleon | Jacky |
Algernon | Charley | Neptune | |
Ajax | Moultchelargene | Noemy | |
Alfred | Big Billy | Omega | Ballywinny |
Bonaparte | Little Jacky | Peter Pindar | Peter |
Benjamin | Ben'' | Philip | Bung's Jacky |
Columbus | Lenerugirin | Rodney | Larmodrick |
Christopher | Dick | Romeo | Tomten |
Constitution | Big Jacky | Robert | Big Tenry's Jemmy |
Daniel | Goannah | William Robinson | Pennebricks |
David | David'' | George Robinson | George |
Edward | Little Billy | Samuel | Kit's Jemmy |
Edmund | Tonee | Tippoo Saib | Jacky |
Eugene | Nicominic | Thomas | Heedeivick |
Frederick | Tommy | Washington | Mackamee |
Francis | Big Mary's Jemmy | King William | Governor |
King George | Old Tom | Walter George Arthur | Friday |
Henry | Henry |
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 Adelaide | Governor's Lubra | Princess Clara | Teddeburric |
Queen Andromache | Larrentong | Catherine | Narrucker |
Amelia | Kittanah | Princes Cleopatra | Kyenrope |
Agnes | Blind Poll | Deborah | Larmodrick |
Ann | Dinah | Queen Evelene | Wongeneep |
Queen Charlotte | Big Tenry | Queen Elizabeth | Big Bet |