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moment that I first saw these people, I was so struck with the peculiarity 
of their appearance, that I was under the instant conviction that they 
were an amalgam of a native, with some civilized race; and from what 
I have seen of them, and of the remains on the Missouri and Ohio rivers, 
I feel fully convinced that these people have emigrated from the latter 
stream; and that they have, in the manner that I have already stated, 
with many of their customs, been preserved from the almost total 
destruction of the bold colonists of Madawe, who, I believe, settled upon 
and occupied for a century or so, the rich and fertile banks of the Ohio. 
In adducing the proof for the support of this theory, if I have failed to 
complete it, I have the satisfaction that I have not taken up much of 
the reader’s time, and I can therefore claim his attention a few moments 
longer, whilst I refer him to a brief vocabulary of the Mandan language 
in the following pages, where he may compare it with that of the Welsh; 
and better, perhaps, than I can, decide whether there is any affinity 
existing between the two; and if he finds it, it will bring me a friendly 
aid in support of the position I have taken. From the comparison that 
I have been able to make, I think I am authorized to say, that in the 
following list of words, which form a part of that vocabulary, there is a 
striking similarity, and quite sufficient to excite surprise in the mind of 
the attentive reader, if it could be proved that those resemblances were 
but the results of accident between two foreign and distinct idioms. 
English. À Mandan. Welsh. Pronounced. 
ji me mi me 
You ne chwi chwe 
He e A A 
She ea E A 
It 1 ount hwynt hooynt 
We noo ni ne 
They eonah hwna, mas. hoona 
hona, fem. hona 
Those ones yrhui hyna 
No, or, there is not megosh nagoes nagosh 
naye 
No { nay 
na 
Head pan pen Pan 
The Great Spirit maho peneta mawr penaethir! mavor panaether 
ysprid mawr ? uspryd maoor 
An examination of Catlin’s vocabulary proves it to be Dakota in 
the main, although some divergent types of words exhibit Welsh analo- 
gies. Such are warootah, a dog, moorse, a wife, dsashosh, hot, ote, a 
1 To act as a great chief—head or principal—sovereign or supreme. 
2 The Great Spirit. 
