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for the Walrus. A hint upon this point is given by Bourinot in his list of place- 

 names ending in ACADIE, where, after citing this name upon Rand's authority, he 

 adds, no doubt from some note by Rand himself, "bouselooa meaning to travel by 

 water" {these Transactions, IX, 1891, ii, 327). The Walrus does (or did, for it is 

 now extinct in all this region), migrate or travel extensively by water, and hence very 

 likely was known to the Micmacs both as BÂSTOOGOBÂJIT, "the thick-skinned 

 one," and as BUSLOO, "the water-traveller," the one being his regular name and 

 the other a nick-name. At all events the significance of the place-name seems 

 perfectly clear, as BUSLOO-WÂ-KA'DI-(K), meaning literally SEA COW-THEIR- 

 OCCURRENCE (PLACE), or more generally HAUNT OF THE SEA COW. As 

 the Walrus is known to have frequented all this region, and were accustomed to land 

 and bask upon prominent sandy points, I have no doubt that this name is accurately 

 descriptive of their former haunts. 



(2). St. Peters Island, at the western entrance to Hillsborough Bay, near 

 Charlottetown, is given by Rand, as BÂSLOOÂÂKÂDE, _meaning SEA-COW- 

 HAUNT {First Reading Book, 98), while he has BASLOOAKADE and PASU- 

 LOOAKADE in his Micmac-English Dictionary, 180, 187. Thus- in both form and 

 meaning this word seems identical with that just given for Cape Traverse, the 

 difference between BUSLOO and BASLOO being obviously without significance, 

 and representing simply the ways Rand represented on different occasions a sound 

 that is really intermediate. This spelling BASLOO, however, especially as rendered 

 more easy of pronunciation by the introduction of another syllable on the analogy 

 of Rand's PASULOO, gives the best basis for the simplified form BASELACADIE. 

 Taking all the facts together, accordingly, it seems clear that the Micmac name for 

 St. Peters Island is identical with that for Cape Traverse, the two places being 

 sufficiently distant to prevent any confusion between them in the speech of the 

 Indians, and St. Peters Island, like Cape Traverse being thus indicated as one of 

 the favourite former haunts of the Walrus. 



A point that at first sight is very puzzling in connection with this name is this, 

 thatJRand, in his Micmac-English Dictionary above cited, gives as the meaning of 

 the word for both places, not SEA-COW HAUNT, but LANDING PLACE. The 

 word, however, cannot mean LANDING PLACE in the ordinary sense, partly 

 because no roots corresponding thereto appear in the word, and partly because the 

 termination -A-KA'DI-(K) implies so positively the name of some animal or other 

 natural object. Accordingly I think either that Rand meant to write LANDING 

 PLACE FOR SEA-COW, their HAUNTS being all LANDING PLACES, or else 

 that in his earlier studies he confused the name of St. Peters Island with that of 

 Governors Island, the only other in Hillsborough Bay, for the name of the latter 

 means WHERE GOODS ARE LANDED {First Reading Book, 88). In this case 

 he would naturally extend his error to the identical name of Cape Traverse. Then 

 in his First Reading Book he corrected the error, for the latter work, though published 

 much earlier than his Micmac-English Dictionary, was worked over by him for 

 publication as his MS. Dictionary was not. 



BASTOGOBAJITWACADIE. The Micmac name for Graham Head, on the 

 western coast of Prince Edward Island at Bedeque Bay, according to RaruTs special 

 list of names mentioned on page 390, which has BÀSTOGOBÀJÏT-WAAKÂDE, 

 meaning SEACOW POINT. The word very obviously involves our familiar com- 

 bination WA-KA'DI-(K), already discussed (page 380), together with the 

 BÂSTOGOBÂJIT, meaning the SEACOW (Rand, English-Micmac Dictionary, 228), 

 which animal was of course the Walrus, formerly abundant in this region. Thus the 

 word would be BÂSTOGOBÂJÏT-WÂ-KA'DI-(K), meaning literally SEACOW- 

 THEIR-OCCURRENCE-(PLACE). Our modern maps call the place Graham 



