_Quo_ is the sounding termination of the Cheerake; as _Seohsta-quo_, “good,”—and _O-se-u_, “best,” or very good. Here they seem to have studiously chosen the vowels:—As the following words will illustrate, _Tonnàte-ū_, “very honest,” or virtuous, and _Y-O-U_, “Evil,” or very bad. To corroborate the hints I gave, concerning the Indian names of monkey, and the human species, let it be observed, that though their words convey a virtuous or vicious idea, in proportion as they are constituted out of {55} any of their three divine names, YOHEWAH, YAH, and ISHTOHOOLLO; or contain the vowels of the great sacred name, yet the aforesaid word Y-O-U, is so far from being a deviation from that general custom, it is an emphatical, and emblematical term to express evil, by the negative of good; for, as it is the only substantive or adjective of that word, it is a strong expressive symbol of the nature, and physical cause of moral evil, by separating _YO_, the first syllable of the divine four-lettered name into two syllables; and adding _U_, as a superlative period, to make it _malum malorum_. _Shèh_ is the sounding criterion of the Muskohge, or Creek Indians,—a kind of cant jargon, for example; _Heettla-sheh_, signifies “good,” and _Heettla-wah-E-sheh_, “very good;” according to their universal standard of speech, it becomes a superlative, by subjoining that part of the divine name to it. With the Chikkasah and Choktah, _Heettla_ signifies dancing; probably because that religious exercise was good and highly pleasing to them, when, according to ancient custom, they danced in their symbolical circles, to, and before, YO HE WAH. With the former, _Apullowhage sheh_, expresses “bad,” or evil, thereby inverting the divine letters. _Skeh_ is the favourite termination of the Chikkasah and Choktah—as _Chookòma-skeh_, “good,” _Chookòmasto-skeh_ (alluding to _Ishto_) “very good;” and _Ookproo-skeh_, “bad.” Likewise, _Ookproosto_, “worst,” or very bad; for, by annexing the contracted initial part of the divine name, _Ishtohoollo_, to the end of it, it is a superlative. These remarks may be of service to the inhabitants of our valuable and extensive barriers, in order to discover the national name of those savages, who now and then cut them off. _Ookproo-see_, with those Indians, signifies “accursed;” the two last letters make only a _samech_, which implies a neuter passive: and, as _Ookproo_ is the only substantive or adjective they use to express “evil,” by doubling the leading vowel of the four-lettered divine name, both at the beginning and end of the word; may we not conjecture at its origin, as glancing at the introduction of sin or evil by man’s overacting, or innovating, through a too curious knowledge, or choice? “Ye shall be as gods,” and, in order to gain the resemblance, they ate what was forbidden. {56}