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numerous forms ending in -atis^ -katis all belong to the historic 

 past or aorist tense ; cf. vol. i. 206. 



Many of the suffixes were separated from the body of the word 

 by the simple hyphen, especially when polysyllabic : -tati^ -titd- 

 yiSf etc. ; but the shorter ones were not, as in Creek : -cis^ -g<^i 

 -ha^ -it {-i'n), -sin^ -tuii^ -n, and others. They are, however, 

 mentioned in the glossary. 



When two vowels meet belonging to two words forming a 

 compound, or belonging to two affixes forming a derivative, the 

 vowel of the first word, not that of the second, is elided; e.g. 

 adsh'simapi stalk of maize, not adshi = mapi. 



The parts or limbs of the human and animal body and the 

 terms of relationship appear in the Maskoki dialects always con- 

 nected with prefixed possessive pronouns. I have therefore en- 

 tered most of them in the two glossaries under im-^ in-^ z'-, the 

 possessive prefix of the third person. 



The other nouns and also the verbs of the Indian texts begin- 

 ning with im-^ imm-^ in-, inn-^ /-, or other prefixed personal 

 pronouns, as tcha-^ an-^ tchi-^ are to be looked for under their 

 simple forms in Creek ; inlo vadis under 16 ^as, inkakida under 

 kakida, pofigi under ifigi. In Hitchiti : immiki under miki. 



In many verbs the personal or possessive pronoun is insepa- 

 rable from them, and such verbs as these will be found either 

 under an- (ist pers.), ?'-, im-^ in- (3d pers.), or under tcha- 

 (ist pers.) 



For further elucidation of the grarnmatic forms in the Creek 

 and Hitchiti text, cf. the morphologic sketch of the Creek lan- 

 guage in vol. i. pp. 19S-211, and that of the Hitchiti language 

 in vol. i. pp. 80-S5. Some Creek terms quoted in vol. i. were 

 entered in the Creek glossary, others will be mentioned in the 

 Index * 



* The Creek text appears in this volume in a revised and correct shape, and parties 

 owning the first volume should therefore remove pp. 237-351 before sending it to the 

 binder. In violation of our contract, the publisher D. G. Brinlon undertook to " correct" 

 the Creek text himself; the natural consequence was that about one hundred errors were 

 left standing, and the text was rendered totally unfit for scientific use. 



