word for mechanical, and all classes of implements, is 'Jegun.

To break up (any inanimate substance), is Pegoobidon. or earth is Akki >

Akkum, surface of the

Land

earth.

Hence, PegooWassakumibe'ejegun, a plough or breaking-up-land instrument. au is light Biskoona, 'flame. Hence, Was-ko-nen-jegun, a ;

candle or light flame instrument.

Not only verbs and substantives are thus compounded and lengthened out in their syllabical structure, but adjectives ad mit of similar forms. Thus from the adjective radix misk^ there is

formed a variety of dual and trial compounds, which are in

daily vocal use.

From misk

Misquee,

Blood.

Misqueewon,

Bloody.

Misqueengtta,

A blush.

Misquawauk,

Pved cedar.

t

red, and nebee, water.

"

"

"

"

"

'

won, a substance. equa, a female.

auk, a tree.

From the word Mmno^ good, is derived. Minnomonedo,

.

Minnoinnini,

Minnoequa,

.

.

.

.

.

A good God, or an heavenly spirit. A good man.

.A good woman.

From the word Mudjee, or Matchee, as it is usually written, is

formed

:

Matcbeemonedo Matcbeinnini,

...

A bad spirit of demon of evil. A bad man.

One of the most striking sources of Indian compounds is that The open firmament

derived from men's and women's names.

of heaven is the derived.

field

from which these names 'aje generally

They are, consequently, sublime or grandiloquent in

phraseology ; sometimes poetic, always highly figurative, and

HUDSON RIVER INDUNS.

The following examples of the personal names of each sex will denote this often bombastic or ridiculous.

: