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Referring to the first as A and the second as B we may make the 

 following comparisons with words in the Vocabulary : 



A. B. 



Our, naina, nahan, 



Father, nadmina, tata. 



Thou, ga, nacd, 



Heaven, gaJiami, nihaseno, 



Earth, nangui, nangui. 



Kingdom (thy), janima-U, manima-jin. 



Give (thou), nino, nio-tisla. 



To-day, ganei, 



Us (= to us, of us), najin, najin. 



VOCAB. 



naJian. 



nami ("cura " ). 



gahye. 



garni. 



nangi. 



gandai. 



Turning now to an investigation of the affinities of theMazatecan, 

 I present the following arrangement of a number of words, with 

 their corresponding terms, in dialects either of the Chapanecan or 

 Chibchan stock. It is noteworthy that very rarely do we find any 

 word which is at all alike in the three. The Mazatecan terms seem 

 to have been derived from two sources radically dissimilar. 



Comparison of the Mazatec with the Chapanecan and 

 Chibchan Stocks. 



