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GRAMMAR OF THE LANGUAGE 



[of nouns.] 



ORDINAL NUMBERS. 



Netami, the first, (animate) 



N amiecfaen, the first, (inanimate) 



Tacquak, the second 



Nechit, the third 

 Palenachtchit, the fourth 

 Palenachtchegit, the fifth, &c. 



In the Preterite. 



Mauchsop, mayauchsop, there was one 



Ni-chopanik, there were two 



Na'-hopanik, there were three 



IV (vopanik, tliere were four 



P,ii ii.h-Ii tchopaniki there were five 



Tellen tchopanik, there were ten 



ft'ischiuachk tchopanik, there were twenty 



Nachenachk tchopanik, there were thirty 

 Ngutta pachxopanik, there were a hundred 

 Palcuach tchapachxopanik, there were five hun- 

 dred 

 Tellen tchapachxopanik, there were a thousand 

 of them. 



OF THE COMPUTATION OF TIME. 



The days among the Indians are reckoned by nights. It is, however, 

 not improper to say : 



Ngutti gischque, one day 

 Nischa gischquewi, two days 



jNacha gischquewi, three days, &c. 



But the most proper and usual mode of computing nights, is 

 lows : 



as 



fol- 



Nguttokuni, one night 

 Nuktokuni, only ( ne night 

 Nischogunak, two nights 

 Nachogunak, three nights 

 Newoguuak, four nights 



Palenach tchogunak, five nights 

 Guttasch tchogunak, six nights 

 Tellen tchogunak, ten nights 

 Nischinachk tchogunak, twenty nights 

 Newinachk tchogunak, forty nights, &.c. 



In the Preterite. 



The preterite is always connected with the plural, as below. You 

 cannot say in the singular nguttokunakat, one night ago, as you say in 

 the plural. You must say welaquik, last night, or ivulaque, yesterday. 



But speaking of several nights, you say : 



Nischokunakat, two nights ago 

 Nachokunakat, three nights ago 

 Ncwokunakat, four nights ago 

 Palenach tchokunakat, five nights ago 

 Tellen tchokunakat, ten nights ago 



Mischinachk tchokunakat, twenty nights ago 

 Newinaschk tchokunakat. forty nights ago 

 Palenach tchonachk tchokunakat, fifty nights 

 ago. 



The Indians reckon their months by moons, from one new or full moon 

 to another : 



Ngutti gischuch, one month 

 Nischa gischuchak, two months 



j Naclia gischuchak, three months 

 I Tellen tchi gischuchak, ten months. 



Their reckoning of the year is from one spring, summer, autumn, or 

 winter, to another. They have properly no beginning of the year, ex- 

 cept that they have learned from the Europeans to distinguish New 



