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33 have to be connected by and whenever they are rendered 

 in English. The two versions give at least a correct idea of 

 these dialects, although it is not claimed that the Indians of 

 1735 have used exactly the same terms which we give in our 

 texts. 



The more important directions for the use of the Hitchiti 

 Glossary are contained on pp. 72. 73 ; I therefore subjoin only 

 a few supplementary facts and rules. 



For the proper names of persons, towns, tribes, and localities, 

 see the Creek Glossary, and observe that Hitchiti substitutes the 

 ending -a'li (-a'lut, -a'lun) to the Creek -algi in tribal names. 



To find certain nouns and verbs, having pronouns prefixed 

 to them in the Glossary, observe the same rules and restrictions, 

 as in the Creek. 



All transitive and intransitive verbs were quoted in the first 

 person singular of the declarative mode, in the present tense with 

 the ending -lis (-alis, -ilis etc.), the impersonal verbs showing 

 the terminal -is, -s. 



The verbal paradigm of Hitchiti as given in vol. i. 83-85 is. 

 incomplete in some respects. The few additional forms given 

 in the following list will therefore materially help the studious 

 reader in the comprehension of the text, the full understanding 

 of which, in spite of the explanations in the Glossary, is by no 

 means an easy matter. In passing from the present to the pre- 

 terit a change of quantity is observed in the radical vowel in 

 Hitchiti as well as in Creek. 



The suffix -tawats (for -tawatis) is being appended to the ver- 

 bal in -k inflected through all persons ; it does not inflect for 

 person, and through its component -ta- points to a past more or 

 less remote. This syllable -ta- is also found to possess the same 

 function in -ta'h- , -tah6mit, -tahunka and the Creek -tati. This 

 tense runs as follows : i sg. isiliktawats, 2 sg. isitskaktawats,. 

 3 sg. isiktawats ; i. pi. isigaktawats, 2 pi. isatskaktawats, 3 pi. 

 isagiktawats. 



The suffix -wats (for -watis) forms a tense, which corresponds- 

 to our preterit, but likewise to the present tense, and is often 

 used to express verbs which in the English text stand in the 



