In Virginia, resides the remnant of an Indian tribe, who call themselves Sepóne;[26] which word, with the Egyptians, signifies the time of putting their wine into vessels; derived, according to mythologists, from _Saphan_, “to inclose or conceal.” From thence they formed the fictitious _Tisiphone_, the punisher of sins, animated with hatred; and also the rest of their pretended furies, from the like circumstances of the year. Our early American writers have bestowed on these Indians an emperor, according to the Spanish copy, calling him _Pawhatan_—contrary to the Indian method of ending their proper names with a vowel; and have pictured them as a separate body of fierce idolatrous canibals. We however find them in the present day, of the same temper and religious tenets, as the rest of the Indian Americans, in proportion to their situation in life. Considering the nearness of Egypt to Judea, they might have derived that appellative from the Egyptians,—especially, as here, and in several of our American colonies, (particularly on the north side of Susquehāna river, in Pensylvania) are old towns, called _Kanāa_. There was about thirty years ago, a remnant of a nation, or subdivided tribe of Indians, called _Kanāai_; which resembles the Hebrew proper name, כנענ, (_Canaan_, or _Chanoona_). Their proper names always end with a vowel: and they seldom use a consonant at the end of any word[XV]. I cannot recollect {64} any exceptions but the following, which are sonorous, and seem to be of an ancient date; _Ookkàh_, “a swan;” _Ilpàtak_, “a wing;” _Kooshàk_, “reeds;” _Sheenuk_, “sand;” _Shūtik_, “the skies;” _Phutchik_, “a star;” _Soonak_, “a kettle;” _Skin_, “the eye;” _Ai-eep_, “a pond;” and from which they derive the word _Ai-ee-pe_, “to bathe,” which alludes to the eastern method of purifying themselves. _Ilbàk_ signifies “a hand;” and there are a few words that end with _sh_; as _Soolish_, “a tongue,” &c. Footnote XV: