waubik, etc., compounds in which the words, red, white, black yellow, etc., unite with aubik.

HUDSON RIVER INDIANS.

Let this mode of interrogation be continued, and -extended to other adjectives, or the same adjectives applied to other objects, and results equally regular and numerous will appear.

we shall be told, is an island

;

Minnis,

miskominnis, a red island ;

mukkuddaminnis, a black island, etc. Annokwut, is a cloud ; miskwaunakwut, a red cloud j waubabnokwut, a white cloud, etc.

Neebe is the

specific

term for water, but is not generally used

in combination with the

appears

to

adjective. generic term for

be a

Hence, gitskee,

The word goma, like aubo^ water or potable

liquids.

great, gitshig-guma^ great water ; minno, good,

minwau-guma, good drink, etc.

Baimwa is sound

;

baimwawa,

the passing sound ;

minwawa, a pleasant sound ;

mudwayausshkau, the sound of

waves dashing on the shore.

These exam

ples might be continued ad infinitum. Every modification of almost of circumstances, thought, is expressed every peculiarity

by some modification of the orthography. Enough has been given to prove that the adjective combines itself with the sub stantive, the verb, and the pronoun ; that the combinations thus

produced are numerous, afford concentrated modes of convey ing ideas, and oftentimes happy terms of expression. Varied as the adjective is in its changes, it has no compara A Chippewa cannot say, that one substance is tive inflection. hotter or colder than another ; or of

two or more substances

unequally heated, that this or that is the hottest or coldest, with And it is accord out employing adverbs or accessory adjectives.