Héh_; with a reference probably to the Hebrew custom of immoderately weeping and wailing for their dead, and invoking the name of God on such doleful occasions; and which may have induced these supposed red Hebrews to believe the like conduct, a very essential part of religious duty. _Neetak Yah-ah_ signifies “a fast day,” because they were then humbly to say _Ah_, and afflict their souls before YAH. In like manner, _Yah Abe_ signifies “one who weeps for having killed, or murdered another.” Its roots are יה, _Yah_, their continual war-period, and, אבל, _Abele_, signifying “sorrow or mourning;” for, as killing, or murdering, is an hostile act, it cannot be drawn from אבה, which signifies brotherly love, or tender affection. _Nana-Yah-Abe_ describes a person weeping, while another is killing him. Now, as _Nana_ is “a relation,” _Yah_ “God,” and _Abe_ as above, the true meaning seems to be, “One, like bleeding Abele, weeping to God.” Likewise their name for salt, _Hawa_, may inform us, that though at present they use no salt in their religious offerings, they forbore it, by reason of their distant situation from the sea-shore, as well as by the danger of blood attending the bringing it through an enemy’s country; for, according to the idiom of their language, if they had not thought salt an essential part of the law of sacrificature, they most probably, would not have derived it from the two last syllables of the great divine name; whereas they double the consonant, when they express water, without drawing it from the clear fountain of living waters, YO HE WAH. With the Hebrews, as before observed[XIV], טפל, _Tephale_, signifies “shaking or pulling of the hand, cohesion, conjunction, or entering into society;” and “praying, or invoking.” In conformity to that original standard, when the Indians would express a strong, lasting friendship, they have no {59} other way, than by saying, _Aharattlè-la pheena chemanumbóle_, “I shall firmly shake hands with your discourse, or speech.” Footnote XIV: Page 42.