200 THE CANADIAN NATURALIST. [Vol. ix. 



Wyandot-Iroquois. Peninsular. 



heart hahweriacha Iroquois. kokurro Japanese. 



heaven, sky.toendi Wyandot. ting " 



kiunyage, Seneca. khigan Koriah. 



man eniha Nottoioay. aino Aino. 



moon kanaughquaw Cayuga, kounetsou Aino. 



kelanquaw Mohawk. geilgen Koriah. 



mother anah Tttscarora. anak Tchuktchi. 



mouth agwaghsene Mohawk. ekigin *' 



nose jnuingah ^Vyandot. chynga Tchuktchi, honna LooChoo 



river joke Nottoway. kiuk Tchuktchi. 



small ostonha Iroquois. uicinan Kamtchatka. 



snow ouniyegbte Mohawk. anighu Tchuktchi. 



sun hiday Ttiscarora. tida Loo Choo. 



onteka Iroquois. nitji Japanese. 



tongue ennasa *' nutshel Kamtchatka. 



water hohnega " va.o'k, -aownai Tchuktchi. 



white kearagea " sheeroosa Zoo CAoo. 



woman yonkwe " innago " 



otaikai Wyandot. tackki " 



ekening Tuscarora. aganak Tchuktchi. 



sister akzia Onondaga. . zia Aino. 



finger eniage " ainhanka Tchuktchi. 



basket atere Iroquois. teeroo Loo Choo. 



tail otahsa " dzoo " 



kill kerios " korossu Japanese. 



write khiatons " katchoong Zoo CAoo. 



copper kanadzia " kanujak Tchuktchi, s'lniixy Japan- 



nail (finger). ohetta " ^oudu Kamtchatka. [ese. 



Such are a few of the resemblances which lie on the surface, 

 in connection with which, and this will equally apply to the 

 Cherokee-Choctaw languages, it may be said that the Iroquois 

 dialects are more closely related through their vocabularies to 

 the Peninsular tongues than are the English and the German to 

 one another. Like the Cherokee-Choctaw family, the Iroquois 

 have also been found to agree with the Asiatic peoples in their 

 grammatical forms, physical features, and religion. The sun or 

 chief divinity, matschak in Tchuktchi, iiitji in Japanese, and 

 ntetakhasseh in Choctaw, has appeared as o?z^eA;a in Iroquois; 

 and the Catawba noteeh, the Adahi nestacJi, the Cuchan ni/atch, 

 the Peruvian inti, and the Araucanian antu, antaigh, carry on 

 the sun-worshippers of north-eastern Asia far into the southern 

 continent. The warlike, intrusive Koriak, who has driven his 

 relative the Kamtchatdale to the south of his peninsula, and 

 almost exterminated the Yukagir, is, apart from all other con- 

 siderations, the fittest Asiatic with whom to compare the simi- 

 larly warlike and intrusive Iroquois. 



The third family of North American Turanians, but really 



