1885.] ->' Jl [Houston. 



Color Names. — The color names appear difficult to analyze, 

 and vary from those in Chapanee. Thus, as given by the various 

 authorities, they are : 



Mangue. Chapanee. 



Black, nanzome, R. dujama. 



White, nandirime, R. dilima. 



Yellow, nandiume, R. nandikuma. 



-o, r. (nandipame, R. ,. .. 



Blue or Green, ■< - t> ndipama. 



Red, arimbome, B. nduimii. 



In these adjectives the termination me or ma does not belong 

 to the root. Father Abornoz tells us that this suffix character- 

 izes adjectives in the singular number, when they qualify a cer- 

 tain class of nouns "in tighe." (Soe his Gram. p. 15.) The 

 nasal or resonant beginning most of them is also a mere prefix. 



Proper Names. — But few native families of the Mangue dis- 

 tricts of Nicaraugua have retained names drawn from their 

 ancient tongues. In a list before me of several hundred persons 

 in Masaya and Managua, the only surnames from the Mangue 

 are Norori, Namendi, Namullure, Putoi, Nionongue, Macanche, 

 and perhaps Huembes and Piura. Generally, the natives adopted 

 Spanish surnames. 



On the other hand, a large number of local names, derived 

 from the Mangue language, on the map of Nicaragua still define 

 the region once occupied by this nation. Such are Nindiria 

 (from ninda, shore, diri, hill), Nakutiri (from naku, fire, din, 

 hill), Monimbe (jiimbu, water, rain), Nandasimo (jianda, brook), 

 Mombonasi (nasi, woman), Masaya, Managua, Namotiva, No- 

 rome, Nicoya, Oretina, etc., etc. 



Photography by a Lightning Flash. 



By Prof. Edwin J. Houston. 



{Read before the American Philosophical Society, November SO, 1SS5.) 



Mr. Albert S. Barker, of Philadelphia, has recently sent me two photo- 

 graphic views of his stable and surrounding objects, the exposure for 

 which were made during an exceedingly dark night, with no other illumi- 

 nation than a single lightning flash for each. 



The photographic negatives were taken during the severe storm that 



PROC. AMER. PHILOS. S0C. XXIII. 122. 2G. PRINTED FEBRUARY 5, 1886. 



