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Directions 

 FOR THE Use of the Two Glossaries. 



The two Indian retranslations follow the English text pretty- 

 closely, to speak generally ; but in some passages, where an 

 accurate version was difficult to attain, the retranslations are 

 merely paraphrasing the Eng-lish original and use circumscrip- 

 tive language. 



As to the alphabetic order observed in the glossaries, it should 

 be remembered that terms beginning with y- were placed right 

 after those with initial /-, those with initial '/- after those in /-, 

 those with initial tch-^ ts- after those in t-. 



In order to recapitulate the important alternations or sponta- 

 neous permutations of sounds, the knowledge of which is abso- 

 lutely necessary for finding the words of the texts in the glossaries, 

 I repeat that di. a alternate with e and a and vice-versa ; i with 

 ?, jK, zJK-, yi and sometimes with e; o with ?/, A. As to the con- 

 sonants, d interchanges with t ; _^ with k^ kk, x ; b with p ; dsh 

 with ds^ tch, ts ; s with sh^ and '/, but in a few instances only, 

 with /. Gemination is frequent with some consonants only, as 

 ^, k^ /, .y, ?«, 71 in mikko, itallua, adsiilli, pummiki, issi- (prefix) 

 etc. ; when occurring in vowels, it marks emphasis : tcha-ati 

 red ; h is often dropped : hadam and adam, ok'hulati and okulati ; 

 often it is inserted for emphasis : ito-u'h ; and still more fre- 

 quently it marks in Creek a preterit tense : i'hsas (from isas) / 

 took; cf. vol. i. 205. 



Nouns are entered in the glossaries under the forms of their 

 absolute cases; the subjective case ends in -t{-d), the objective 

 in -n. Adverbs usually have the case-endings -/ or -n. When 

 a Creek Indian quotes a verb, he usually gives it in the infinitive 

 mode ending in ita. I have substituted to this form the first per- 

 son singular of the present, declarative mode of the active voice 

 in -a-i's, contr. -(is, because a large number of substantives also 

 end in -ita, which might cause confusion. The impersonal verbs, 

 of course, were quoted in the third person in -is, -is. The numer- 

 ous verbals also end in ■ t, -n in the cases above mentioned. The 



