long, as strangers conjecturally draw them out. Instead of a simple word, we too often insert the wild picture of a double, or triple-compounded one; and the conjugation of their verbs, utterly deceives us. A specimen of this, will shew it with sufficient clearness, and may exhibit some useful hints to the curious searchers of antiquity. _A-nô-wa_ signifies “a rambler, renegadoe, or a person of no settled place of abode.” _A-nó-wah_, the first person, and _Ish-na_, the second person {69} singular, but they have not a particular pronoun for the third; they distinguish it by custom. _Si-a_, or _Sy-ah_, is “I am;” _Chee-a_, or _Chy-ah_, “you are;” and _Too-wah_, “he is.” _Ay-ah_ signifies “to go;” _Ay-a-sa_, “I remain;” _Ish-i-a-sa_, “you remain;” _A-sa_, “he remains.” _A-OO-E-A_ is a strong religious emblem, signifying “I climb, ascend, or remove to another place of residence.” It points to _A-nó-wah_, the first person singular, and O-E-A, or YO HE WAH; and implies, putting themselves under his divine patronage. The beginning of that most sacred symbol, is, by studious skill, and a thorough knowledge of the power of letters, placed twice, to prevent them from applying the sacred name to vain purposes, or created things. In like manner they say, _Nas-sap-pe-O Ish-OO-E-A_, “You are climbing a very great acorn-tree,” meaning an oak; for _Nas-se_ is the name of an acorn; and the mid part of that triple compounded word, is derived from _Ap-pê-la_, “to help;” _Che-ap-pê-la A-wa_, “I do not help you.” The termination, according to their mixed idiom, magnifies it to a superlative. _Quoo-ran-hê-qua_, a noted old camping place, fourteen miles above the settlement of _Ninety-six_, and eighty-two below the Cheerake, signifies, in their dialect, “the large white oaks.” _Oos-sak_ is the name of a “hickory-nut,” and _Oos-sak Ap-pe-O_ as above. _Oot-te_ signifies “a chestnut;” _Noot-te_, “a tooth;” _Soot-te_, “a pot;” and _Oo-te_, “to make a fire,” which may be called an Indian type for eating boiled chestnuts. When they say, “He is removing his camp,” they express it in a most religious manner, _Al-bé-na-OO-E-A_. _Al-be-nâs-le_ signifies “I camped;” _Al-be-nâs-le-chû_, “I shall, or will, camp:” but, according to their religious mode of speaking, _Al-bé-na A-OO-E-A-re_, expresses the former, and _Al-bé-na A-OO-E-A-ri-chû_, the latter phrase; likewise, _Al-bé-na OO-E-As_ signifies _Castra Moveto_, imperatively. It is worthy of notice, that as they have no pronoun relative to express the third person singular, they have recourse to the first syllable of the essential word, _Toowah_, “He is.” In allusion to that word, they term the conjunction copulative, _Ta-wah_, and _Tee-U-Wah_, “resting.” So mixed a train of nice and exact religious terms, could not be invented by people, as illiterate and savage as the Indians now are, any more than happen by accident.