NUMBERS. The plural has no regular termination. Often the same form serves for both numbers, as is the case in many English words. Thus, _itime_ fish and fishes, _siba_ stone and stones, _känsiti_ a lover and lovers. The most common plural endings are _ati_, _uti_, and _anu_, connected to the root by a euphonic letter; as _uju_ mother, _ujunuti_ mothers, _itti_ father, _ittinati_ fathers, _kansissia_ a loved one, _kansissiannu_ loved ones. Of a dual there is no trace, nor does there seem to be of what is called the American plural (exclusive or inclusive of those present). But there is a peculiar plural form with a singular signification in the language, which is worthy of note. An example will illustrate it; _itti_ is father, plural _ittinati_; _wattinati_ is our father, not our fathers, as the form would seem to signify. In other words, singular nouns used with plural pronouns, or construed with several other nouns, take a plural form. _Petrus Johannes mutti ujúnatu_, the mother of Peter and John. GENDERS. A peculiarity, which the Arawack shares with the Iroquois[3] and other aboriginal languages of the Western continent, is that it only has two genders, and these not the masculine and feminine, as in French, but the masculine and neuter. Man or nothing was the motto of these barbarians. Regarded as an index of their mental and social condition, this is an ominous fact. It hints how utterly destitute they are of those high, chivalric feelings, which with us centre around woman. The termination of the masculine is _i_, of the neuter _u_, and, as I have already observed, a permutation of the semi-vowels _l_ and _r_ takes place, the letter becoming _l_ in the masculine, _r_ in the neuter. A slight difference in many words is noticeable when pronounced by women or by men. The former would say _keretin_, to marry; the latter _kerejun_. The gender also appears by more than one of these changes: _ipillin_, great, strong, masculine; _ipirrun_, feminine and neuter. There is no article, either definite or indefinite, and no declension of nouns. PRONOUNS. The demonstrative and possessive personal pronouns are alike in form, and, as in other American languages, are intimately incorporated with the words with which they are construed. A single letter is the root of each: _d_ I, mine, _b_ thou, thine, _l_ he, his, _t_ she, her, it, its, _w_ we, our, _h_ you, your, _n_ they, their; to these radical letters the indefinite pronoun _ükküahü_, somebody, is added, and by abbreviation the following forms are obtained, which are those usually current: dakia, dai, I. bokkia, bui, thou. likia, he. turreha, she, it. wakia, wai, we. hukia, hui, you. nakia, nai, they.