Iganong] INDIAN PLACE-NOMENCLATURE 393 



EMKOKCHAJITWA CADIE. The Micmac name for Bulls Gut, a place near 

 Halifax, according to Rand, who gives the name as EMKOKETCAJITWAKADE 

 {Micmac-English Dictionary, 181), with the meaning ABODE OF TOADS, although 

 in the First Reading Book, 84, he gives the word without the termination WAKADE. 

 The construction of the name is clear, for the latter part is obviously our familiar 

 root WA-KA'DI-(K), already explained (page 380), while the former part is as clearly 

 ËMKÔKCHÀJIT, meaning A TOAD (Rand, English- Micmac Dictionary, 266). 

 But I have not as yet been able to identify the place, despite much local inquiry, and 

 hence know nothing as to the appropriateness of the name. Possibly this Bull may 

 be short [for Bull Bird, and refer to some place near Sambro (compare page 429, 

 later.) 



ESKUDUQUADIK. The Micmac name for Canadian Point, a prominent 

 wide marsh point on the south side of the Miramichi River above Chatham, in 

 eastern New Brunswick. The name was given me by the late Michael Flinne, 

 teacher of the Micmac school at Eelground (above Newcastle), as ËS-KOO-DOO- 

 GtJAD'-IK, meaning PLACE WHERE THEY DUG WILD POTATOES. Obviously 

 the latter part of the word represents our familiar combination A-KADI-K, in the 

 KWADI form, as earlier explained (page 377), but the former part of the word is not 

 so clear. It seems most likely that it represents a form of MASKOOSIT, which 

 Rand gives as meaning GROUND NUTS (another name for the Wild Potatoes), 

 and which is the stem of the Micmac name for Isle Haute {First Reading Book, 57, 

 and 90). Curiously enough the letters S and D seem to some extent interchangeable 

 in Micmac, as I shall show in other instances later, in which case our ES-KOO-D. 

 would come very close to (M)AS-KO-S of MASKOSIT. As to the identity of the 

 MASKOSIT in relation to SEGEBUN, the more common name for the Ground 

 Nut or Indian Potato, I have no knowledge, nor has Father Pacifique been able to 

 clear up the matter by aid of his Micmacs of Restigouche. Our ESKOODOO would 

 seem to be connected with ESKUDUM, meaning I EAT IT RAW, a cucumber 

 being called ESKUDUMUGÂWÂ, meaning that vegetable which is eaten raw 

 (Randr- Micmac-English Dictionary, 53); and this suggestion may later lead to its 

 identification. 



Other names for edible roots, liable to be confused more or less in identity with 

 SEGEBUN AND MASKOSIT are MULEBUN {op cit. 103) and KAJOO {op. cit. 

 60), both of which are known to the Micmacs of Restigouche, along with SEGEBUN, 

 and another, GAGTJIGOETG, though they do not know MASKOSIT, as Father 

 Pacifique tells me. These words ought to appear in some Micmac names of the 

 -ACAD IE type, though I have not yet found them. 



GALPEAKAD ICH. The Micmac name, in simplified and tentative form, 

 of Grog Islands, on the Restigouche below the Upsalquitch River in New Bruns- 

 wick. The name was given me by Father Pacifique in the form GALPIEGATITJG, 

 with the explanation that the plant called GALPIG (GALPIG ETLIGOTITJIG) 

 grows there, this plant (unidentified by him), being "used as thread." The con- 

 struction of the word is clear, for Father Pacifique's -EGATITJG is the precise 

 equivalent of our -A-KA'DI-K in the diminutive form -A'-KA'DI-JEECH-K 

 (page 377); but the plant called GALPIG I have not yet been able to identify, 

 though possibly it is the Maidenhair Fern, which occurs in that vicinity. The 

 presence of the diminutive termination seems also to imply the presence of another 

 locality for the same plant not far away. Thus the name in full would be GALPIG- 

 A-KA'DI-JEECH-K, meaning literally (PLANT)-THEIR-OCCURRENCE- 

 LITTLE-PLACE. A visit to the Grog Islands, (where I once was before I knew 

 this name) would settle the point. 



