Or THE LENNI LENAPE INDIANS. 

 [of pbonotjns.] 



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Year's Day. Tliey reckon commonly from one seeding time to another, 

 from the time when the deer are red in the Spring and grey in the Au- 

 tumn, when the corn is ripe or cut down and laid up in heaps, iScc. and 



so back again. 



Ngutti gachtin, one year 

 Nucha gachtin, two years 

 Nacha gachtin, three years, &c. 

 Ni-i Inn u-tik ntendchi gachtinami, 



years old 

 Gaehdnamichamp {preterite), I 



years old 



The interval between is one year : 



I am twenty 

 was twenty 



Newinachk tendchi gachlinamo, he is forty 



years old 

 Newinachk tendchl gachtinamiyenk, we arc 



forty yean old 



Newinachk tendchi 

 forty yean old 



Newinachk tendchi 

 forty years old. 



gachtinamiyek, you are 

 gachunauioak, they are 



NAMES OF THE MONTHS. 



Anixi gischuch (Squirrel month), January 

 Tsqaafii gischuch i Frog month), February 

 M'choamowi gischuch | Shad month), March 

 Quitauwcuhcwi gischuch (Spring month), 



April 

 Tauwinipen (Beginning of summer), May 

 Kitschinipen (Summer), June 



Yugatamoewi gischuch, July 

 Sakauweuhi'wi gischuch ( Dirr month,) AtlgUSl 

 Eitscbitachquoak {Jtutwnn month |, Septembei 

 Fooxit (Month of vermin), October 

 Wini gischuch (Snort* month), November 

 M'chakhocque (Cold month, the month when 

 the cold makes the trees crack), December. 



.Vote by the Translator. — For the above explanation of the names of 

 the months, the Translator is partly indebted to the Author's text, and 

 partly to some notes of the late Professor Barton, which have supplied 

 what was wanting in the original, except the meaning of the name of the 

 month of July, which neither has explained. Loskiel calls it the month 

 when the Indian corn is gathered. 



**.— <Df pronouns. 



Thf.mf. is little to be said about this part of speech, of which a view has 

 already been given under the head of nouns. Personal pronouns are 

 either separable or inseparable, but are much more frequently used in 

 the latter form. 



The Separable Pronouns are . 



.Singular. 

 Ni. I 

 Ki. thou 

 Nelca or nekarna, he or she 



Plural. 



Diana m niluna, we 



Kil'iw,i. you 

 N'k.im.tw.i, they. 



The inseparable pronouns are in both numbers n' for the first person 

 ff' iu the second, ir' in the third. When two pronouns are employed 

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