[165-2] Dialectic forms in Algonkin for white, are _wabi_, _wape_, _wompi_, _waubish_, _oppai_; for morning, _wapan_, _wapaneh_, _opah_; for east, _wapa_, _waubun_, _waubamo_; for dawn, _wapa_, _waubun_; for day, _wompan_, _oppan_; for light, _oppung_; and many others similar. In the Abnaki dialect, _wanbighen_, it is white, is the customary idiom to express the breaking of the day (Vetromile, _The Abnakis and their History_, p. 27: New York, 1866). The loss in composition of the vowel sound represented by the English w, and in the French writers by the figure 8, is supported by frequent analogy. [167-1] Schoolcraft, _Algic Researches_, i. pp. 135-142. [167-2] The names of the four brothers, Wabun, Kabun, Kabibonokka, and Shawano, express in Algonkin both the cardinal points and the winds which blow from them. In another version of the legend, first reported by Father De Smet and quoted by Schoolcraft without acknowledgment, they are Nanaboojoo, Chipiapoos, Wabosso, and Chakekenapok. See for the support of the text, Schoolcraft, _Algic Res._, ii. p. 214; De Smet, _Oregon Missions_, p. 347. [168-1] _Narrative of John Tanner_, p. 351. [168-2] Schoolcraft, _Algic Res._, i. p. 216. [168-3] _Narrative of John Tanner_, p. 354. [169-1] Compare the _Rel. de la Nouv. France_, 1634 p. 14, 1637, p. 46, with Schoolcraft, _Ind. Tribes_, v. p. 419. _Kichigouai_ is the same word as _Gizhigooke_, according to a different orthography. [170-1] The names _I8skeha_ and _Ta8iscara_ I venture to identify with the Oneida _owisske_ or _owiska_, white, and _tetiucalas_ (_tyokaras_, _tewhgarlars_, Mohawk), dark or darkness. The prefix i to _owisske_ is the impersonal third person singular; the suffix _ha_ gives a future sense, so that _i-owisske-ha_ or _iouskeha_ means "it is going to become white." Brebeuf gives a similar example of _gaon_, old; _a-gaon-ha_, _il va devenir vieux_ (_Rel. Nouv. France_, 1636, p. 99). But "it is going to become white," meant to the Iroquois that the dawn was about to appear, just as _wanbighen_, it is white, did to the Abnakis (see note on page 166), and as the Eskimos say, _kau ma wok_, it is white, to express that it is daylight (Richardson's Vocab. of Labrador Eskimo in his _Arctic Expedition_). Therefore, that Ioskeha is an impersonation of the light of the dawn admits of no dispute. [170-2] The orthography of Brebeuf is _aataentsic_. This may be analyzed as follows: root _aouen_, water; prefix _at_, _il y a quelque chose là dedans_; _ataouen_, _se baigner_; from which comes the form _ataouensere_. (See Bruyas, _Rad. Verb. Iroquæor._, pp. 30, 31.) Here again the mythological role of the moon as the goddess of water comes distinctly to light.