NORTH AMERICAN



INDIAN,



Chippewas, mittie.
Miiskoghe, etah.
Clierakee, ao/oh.



INDIANS.



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ASIATIC.



WOOD.



Semoyads, meet
Koriaks, oottoa.



Tartars,



otook.



Lenni-Lennape, me-kanne



Cherakee,



keera



Darien Indians,



tsiz



DOG.



Semoyads,
Tehiochonski,
   Pumpocol



kannak.
, koera.
li, tzee.



                      THERE.
LenniwLennape, icka.
Lenni-Lennape has also, talli.



Chippewas,



woity.



Kartalini,



ecka



eck.



Tongusi, talal.
Koriaks, wooatel.



first personal pronoun I, (ego in Latin.)



Lenni-Lennape, ni.



Chippewas,
Miamis, n6



Kamschadales,



nee.



C.



Wyandots, dee.
Maud owessies,



meoh.



Indians of Penobscot



& St. Johns, neah.



Koriaks, neah.
Tonrutani, nai.
   b
Lesghis, dee.
Tchonski, mia.
Motouri, ne.



These sources of information are certainly- worthy of



credit; for they are distinguished as men of the highest
veracity, as well as profound judgment and acute irnagi-
nation. It is lilrewise generally known that no person
can contract a greater intimacy with barbarous nations,
than missionaries, who, by the dignity of their sacred of-
fice, the affability of their manners, and their brotherly
counsel, have always succeeded in endearing themselves



to the rudest of nations.



travellers,



to corroborate



We have the testimony of other
th6 assertions of the learned



Santini and Chiaratesta, while they endeavour to prove a
similarity J3etween the Indian languages and those of
'Il l  _       Is C  * I T I       T                1i.I1



tne t1ongusi and Uoriaks. ilennepin,
among the Indians of North America, sal



who



travellea



that the Hu-



ron language partakes in a high degree of the idiom of
Asiatic tongues, that it abounds with those figurative



The



nieak.



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