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.

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Au be tub gee zbig, Bairn wa wa,

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Cbeeng gaus sin, Esb ta nak wod,

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Ning au be un y O zhau wus co ge zbig,

The sun bursting from a cloud. The westerly wind. The blue sky,. The showers.

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Pa bait ge me wong,

Clear sky or cloudless sky.

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The passing thunder. The noise of wind.

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Mo kau ge zbig,

Centre of the sky.

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Sa sa gun,

Waub un nung,

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Hail.

The morning star.

Males have two and sometimes three names, but generally two, one of which may be called his baptismal name, and the other that which he has acquired from some incident or cir

cumstance. The former is studiously concealed, and never revealed by the Indian bearing it j the latter is the familiar cog

nomen.

is characteristic of female names, that they denote the gender in their terminal syllable qua. The following will sufficiently illustrate the manner in which they are compounded: