"De sus letras porné aqui un _a_, _b_, _c_, que no permite su pesadumbre mas, porque usan para todas las aspiraciones de las letras de un caracter, y despues, al puntar de las partes otro, y assi viene a hazer _in infinitum_, como se podra ver en el siguiente exemplo. _Lé_ quière dezir laço y caçar con el; para escrivirle con sus caracteres, haviendolos nosotros hecho entender que son dos letras, lo escrivian ellos con tres, poniendo a la aspiracion de la _l_ la vocal _é_, que antes de si trae, y en esto no hierran, aunque usense, si quisieron ellos de su curiosidad. Exemplo:-- [Illustration] Dèspues al cabo le pegan la parte junta. _Ha_ que quiere dezir agua, porque la _haché_ tiene _a_, _h_, antes de si la ponen ellos al principio con _a_, y al cabo desta manera:-- [Illustration] Tambien lo escriben a partes, pero de la una y otra manera, yo no pusiera aqui ni trétara dello sino por dar cuenta entera de las cosas desta gente. _Ma in kati_ quiere decir no quiero, ellos lo escriben a partes desta manera:-- [Illustration] This is all on the subject the bishop vouchsafes us. Let us now attempt a free translation of his words, premising that they are so obscure in parts, and the composition so careless and provincial, that we shall not take it at all amiss if any reader thinks he can improve our rendering: "Of their letters, I shall place here an A, B, C, their clumsiness not allowing more; for they employ one character for all the aspirations of the letters, and another to denote their repetitions, and so they go on _in infinitum_, as one may see in the following example: _Le_ means a lasso and to hunt with one. In order to write with their characters, although we told them it contains but two letters, they make use of three, giving to the aspiration of the _l_ the vowel _é_, which is before it, and in this they are not in error, if they wish to write it in their curious manner. Example: e l e lé Afterwards they put at the end the part which is joined. Again in _ha_, which means water, because the letter _h_ contains the sounds a, h, they place the _a_ both at the beginning and at the end, in this manner:-- a h a They can write it either with separate letters or united together. I would not have inserted nor have mentioned this but that I wished to give a complete description of this people. _Ma in kati_ means _I do not wish_; they write it in separate letters in this way:-- ma i n ka ti ."