OF THE LENNI LENAPE INDIANS. 



[first conjugation - .] 



14 1 



SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD. 

 Present. 



Singular. Plural. 



Nihillapeuho.il:;!!--! i. if or when I am made free Nihillapeuhoal<;us<iyeiique, if or when we ate 

 K'nihillapeuhoalgussiyane, if or when thou art made fiee 



made free Nihiliapcuhu .ii^u-^iyripii- it oi when ye are made 



NihiUapcuhoalgussite, if or when he is made free . bee 



NihQIapeuhoalgusaichtite, il or when they arc 

 made free. 



Preterite 



Singular. 



Nihillapeuhoalgussiyakup, if or when I was made 



free 

 K'nihillapcuhoalgussiyanup.il or when ihou wirl 



made free 

 Nihillapeuhoalgussitup, if or when he was made 



free 



Plural. 

 .Niliillapeuhoalgu9siyenkup, if or when we were 



made Erei 

 K'nihillapeulnidliriissiyekup, il "i when ye were 



mad. 1 i | 

 NHuTlapenhnalgiarichUtupi if or when they were 



made free. 



I 'hi perfect 

 Singular. 

 .Nilnllapeuhoalgussiyakpanne, if or when I had 



been made free 

 K'nihillapeuhoalgussiyanpannc, if or when thou 



bads) It. -ii made free 

 Xihillapeuhoalftussitpanne, if or when he hail 

 been made free 



Plural. 

 Yiliill.ipeuhoalguseiyenkpanne, il or when we 



had been made free 

 rl'mhjjlapeuhoalgussiyekpanne, if or when ye 



had been made free 

 Niliill.i|iiiilio.il^iissj,-hiitpanne, if or when they 



had been made free. 



Future. 



Singular. 

 Nihillapcuhoalgussitsch, if or when I shall be 



made free 

 K'nihill '|>i iihu dimssitsch, if or when thou shall 



be made free 

 NihillapeuahoalgussuUch, if or when he shall 



be made free 



Plural 

 NihfllapeuhoalgDflewammenittthj if or when we 



••hall lie made free 

 K'niliill api ilihoalgusalhimatsch, if or win in VS 



shall be made free 

 Niinii ipi nil o dg ■ --ii« iktsch*, ii n when thev 



shall be made free. 



' ,V»tr by thr Translator. — This verb in its various forms i- derived from, or ai least ron- 



iMth nitulltitamrn. I own, I am master of, and to thai cla-s bed which may be 



Used as sulist.inlives, signifying lord or ma-ter, Of as participles, in iheil personal forms, is lii- wlui 



owns me, thee, bun, ffcc Sec the Ith conjugation, No. ill. to which thai verb belong!. 



w ith ibis family ot rerbi mi -nli-t.niii\ ,-- i- connected the verb, ntUOa, 1 kill, oi -inkr ilf.nl, 

 and ii- in rms, km hi l toll. I kill ilu-i-, strike Aiee dead . and nilchguttiani, i u ad ordj in tin- sabjurjc* 



!) il nr when I am killed nr slnirk dead. It is \i \ CUriOQI '•■ UbOUIVa 'be rli.nn. nf 



ent national pursue in the formation of their tangu 1 1- ■ -•■ ■ find right, poweri 



and force confounded together, at II there was no difference between thi I owner, mas- 

 ter, lord; I strike, kill, oi - I from 'i n prodoced under different 



forma, and iln- will, no doubt, be ascribed to the barbarity «-i kmerii an Indians. Ibit may not 

 simil.ir connectiona and derivations be found hi fbe lai civilized nations^ Forfa 



the Italian catftvo, wicked, from captunu, s prisoner, whence the English v\ a d caitiff is derived , 

 the I enchffueux, ' which signifies also a beggar ; ih'! j itfgmatiziog misfortune with 



the imputation oi baseness and crime; and in aimost all European I wrttch, 



malheurriLr, tmterable, fvi- used to express the highest di efiunation and contempt 



1 ski physic, pomp!" — Let us leam first to know ourselves. In Inn «,■ pass too •• 

 ment on othei nations. 



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