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EEV. GEOEGE PATTERSON ON 



Most of these names of plants are wanting in the dictionaries, but they exhibit the 

 Algonquin nature of the Beothik. 



The months I can make nothing of. Those in Crée and in Micmac are every bit as 

 discordant. 



I add a comparison of some Beothik words with Malay-Polynesian, which tends 

 to locate the ancestral Beothik stock in Celebes. 



Bad . . 

 Blue . . 

 Belli/. . 

 Black . 

 Bird . 

 Cold . . 

 Bog .. 

 Flesh ■ 

 Fire . . 

 Go... 

 Good. 

 Hand . 



Head 



Hot, warm .... 



House 



- Husband 



Leaf 



Sun, moon 



Mouth 



Nose 



Rher 



Star 



Tonyw 



Water 



White 



Saltwater 



Finger 



Iro7i 



Nail 



One 



Two 



Three 



Four 



Five 



Seven 



Beothik. 



Malay-Polykesian. 



muddy maduki, Bouton ( Celebes). 



eeshang, eygth i ijan, Bouton. 



liadabotheek botanga, Bolanghitam (Celebes). 



mandzey amaita, Boulon. 



deynyad manuti, Wahai {Ceram). 



moidensee madadun, Menado (Celebes) ; matuno, Sanguir. 



mamudthuk munloa, Bouton. 



ashantsh isnatea, Amblaw. 



boobeshawt j pepi, Macassar. 



baetlia ! buoh, Amblaio. 



liomedik motaki, Marquesas. 



niemen niman, Ahtiago (Ceram). 



mamed komud, Gani ( Gilolo) ; kimath, Pelcw. 



goatbin, keathut kahutu, Mysol. 



boobasba ' boobooha, Tonga ; niopass, Bolangleitam. 



mammateek ' banna, Bouton ; umali, Ahtiago. 



zathrook taroraki, Bolanghitam. 



madyna idun, Mijsol. 



kewiss, cuiss coyoss, Pelev; kawake, Paurnotua- 



niaiiiudlhun numatea, Amblav: 



geen o-anu, Bovlon ; jjunga, Bohinyhilam. 



slieboh sawan, Sanguir. 



shauwayet tahwettu, Tah Hi. 



niamudtliuk ! imod, Gani. 



ebanthoo | Vjanju, Borneo ; manu, Bouton. 



wobee j babut, Ahtiago. 



massooch masiu, Ahtiago (.lalt). 



hanyees kaniuko, Mysol. 



mowageene 



cusb 



gathet, yazeek 



adasic 



thedesic, sbendeek 



abidoessik > efl'ats, Malagasy. 



uejech : ngeka, Paumutua. 



oodzook [ hiddoo, Easter Island. 



momum, Ahtiago. 



kuku, Bouton. 



kotahià, Easter Island ; asaha, Tnham. 



addua, Philippine. 



tiga, Malay ; kunete, Lifu. 



I imagine that the Beothiks belonged to the same tribe as the New England Paw- 

 tuckets and Pequods, and that their remote ancestors mvist have formed part of a great 

 emigration from the Indian archipelago, consequent upon the Buddhist invasions of these 

 islands prior to the Christian era. This involves a certain state of civilization and the 

 possession of large vessels or proas. Landing on the Pacific coast of America, they were 

 driven inland by successive waves of their own Algonquin race, and finally, about the 

 seventh century a. d., by tribes of Siberian origin, who became Aztec-Sonora, Paduca, 

 Choctaw, Iroquois and Dacotah Indians, and who drove the Algonquins into the far east. 

 The Beothiks, perhaps the earliest colonists and the weakest, were at last compelled to 

 cross the sea as a refuge from their enemies, and take up their abode in Newfoundland. 

 Their vocabulary agrees best with those of the New England tribes. 



