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:

It

.... Woman

Au zbe bik o qua, Bairn wa wa ge zbig a qua, Cbeeng gosh kum o qua,

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of the rock.

Woman of the thunder-cloud. Woman of the sounding foot

.... Woman Woman .... Woman steps.

Ke neance e qua,

Little rose-bud woman.

Mau je ge zbik o qua, O gin e bug o qua, O bub bau mwa wa ge zbig o qua, .

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of the zenith. of the rose. of the murmuring of

the skies.

The formation of geographical names is no exception to the rule.

Wombi, in the Natick, or Massachusetts dialect,

which

means white ; the Wappingers are presumed to have spoken, is a termination for azbfbik^ a rock or solid formation /V, or //, of rocks.

Hence Wombic, the Indian name

mountains o/ signifies

bad ;

for the

White

New Hampshire.

In the Algonquin, monaud nok and nac, in the same language, is a term indi

cative of rock or precipice.

Hence Monadnock, a detached