Urinton.] 4Jo [Dec. 5, 



Oiia, tire;, oiia-cbil, sun. These will readily be recognized. 



Pocole, two at a time, "en dix" (Dumont). This is the Mas. pokole, 

 ten. 



Tallabe, very many ; "il y en a tant que je ne puis plus les compter " 

 (Dumont). 



Tamail, woman or wife (Gravier, Letter, p. 141, and Du Pratz). Prop- 

 erly tvma'l. 



Tecou, servants, inferiors ; ouchil-techou, servants of the Great Sun, 

 employed to convey his orders to the various villages. They were two in 

 number (Penicaut, Annals, p. 91). 



Du Pratz gives the following examples of the difference between the 

 dialects of the nobles and common people. 



i to a noble magani 



Hark ye < 



( to a commoner aquenan 



Are you there ? i to a noble apape-gouaiche 



How do you do? (to a commoner tacthte-cabanacte 



t to a noble cahan 



Sit down < 



(to a commoner petchi 



Of these, the first two are similar, except the prefix m. The last word 

 is from he'ches, to sit. The others are too uncertain in form to allow of 

 identification. 



The proper names preserved in various writers are few in number. I 

 have noted the following : 



(Jlabalkebiche, the Stung Serpent, le Serpent Pique, the Great Sun. 

 who died in 1725. The first portion of the name is vlv, serpent. 



Oyelape, the White Earth, la Terre Blanche, name of a Sun. Given 

 the full French sound we may suppose it formed of wihih earth and 

 kahap white. 



Ala ho flt'chia, name of a chief (Richebuurg, La Premiere Guerre des 

 Natchez, p. 217). 



Chinuabie, name of the " Great Natchez Warrior" in 1792 {American 

 State Papers, Indian Affairs, Feb. 17, 1592). 



Is-sa-laktih, name of the Chief of whom Mr. Gallatin obtained his 

 vocabulary. 



Jenzenaque, the name of one of their villages (Dumont). 



It is very evident from this examination, incomplete as it is, that the 

 Nache is a dialect of the Maskoke or Creek, changed in various respects, 

 with a small percentage of totally foreign roots, but distinctly recog- 



