[GANONG] INDIAN PLACE-NOMENCLATURE 189 
KIKTCEBOOGWEK, meaning I ENCIRCLE AROUND IT, ENCLOSE IT. All 
of these words are obviously forms of the same word and represent the Micmac 
name of some branch of New London Bay, for BOOKTABA means a BAY or HAR- 
BOUR. Bellin’s Carte de l’ Acadie of 1757, by the way, applies HAVRE QUIQUI- 
BOUGAT, evidently the same word, to the first harbour east of Magpae (aboriginal 
form of Malpec), and therefore to New London Bay or Harbour, while the Morris 
map of 1749 has KEKE BOQUET for the same place. But as to which of Rand’s 
three several meanings is correct, that must be determined by further study, though 
it is to be noted that the prefix KIKTC means CLOSE, as shown by several words 
having that meaning in Rand’s Micmac-English Dictionary, 76, 77, while KIKCHOO 
also means CLOSE (English-Micmac Dictionary, 60). The BOOGWEK meaning, as 
shown above (page 180) TIDEWAY, implies that the name originally was applied 
not to the Bay but to one of the streams flowing into it. 
But the complication in this name does not end here, for Rand also gives 
KIKTCEBOOGWEK as the Micmac name for Darnley, Prince Edward Island, 
presumably Darnley Basin, and meaning CHANNEL GOES AROUND CLOSE BY, 
and himself identifies it with KIJEBOOGWEK above mentioned (Micmac-Englisii 
Dictionary, 76, 77): A curious thing about the matter is that two places so cloc 
together, only about twelve miles apart in fact, should bear an identical Indian 
name. Still further, in the same work (op. cit., 183), Rand also gives the apparently 
identical name KIKTCISEBOOGWEK to Lennox Island, not ten miles west of 
Darnley. This, however, is simply some error of Rand or his editor, for in his 
Reader, 91, he gives for Lennox Island the name KIKCHESEBEIIK, meaning THE 
PASSAGE IS CLOSE IN SHORE (obviously from the roots KIKTC meaning 
CLOSE, and SEBEIIK a common word for PASSAGE), a form and meaning so 
appropriate to the place that I have no question this word is correct and the other 
is an error. And doubtless the same remark applies to Rand’s ascription of the 
same word KIKTCISEBOOGWEK to an “Island near Merigomish,”’ viz., that form 
also should be KIKCHESEBEIIK. And precisely the same name is applied to 
Saunders Harbour (Reader, 100). Evidently there is some confusion in Rand’s 
use of ths name, and it is in order to form a basis for the elucidation of the matter 
that I offer here the available data. Doubtless it could be settled by the aid of the 
living Indians at Lennox Island. But in the main, it seems clear that these words 
KIKCHEBOOGWEK, KIJEBOOGWEK and KIKTCEBOOGWEK are identical, 
and the same as the original of KOUCHIBOUGUAC just discussed, describing the 
way in which a part of the estuaries of rivers flow parallel with the coast inside of 
great beaches. 
PIJELOOASKAK, the Micmac name for Lahave River, meaning, according to 
Rand (Micmac-English Dictionary, 139), HAVING LONG JOINTS. He spells the 
word also PLJELOOISKAT (op. cit. 188), while his spelling in his Reader, 91, viz. PI- 
JENOOISKAK, appears to contain a misprint of N for L as the root implies. The 
roots are in general plain. The PIJ is obviously the same as in PIJIBOOGWEK 
(page 179) and means LONG; the remainder of the word is evidently equivalent to 
ULGWISK or ELKWISK in words meaning JOINT or JOINTED, of which several 
are given by Rand in his English-Micmac Dictionary, 149, though I do not understand 
the elimination of the G, or K; while the AK or AT is clearly the locative suffix 
which makes the word apply to a place. Hence the full form of the word would be 
PIJ-ELKWISK-AK, meaning LONG JOINTS PLACE. I take it, however, that 
the JOINTS are the straight stretches of river commonly called REACHES by 
sailors and others, which do in fact constitute a notable feature of this river. Hence 
we can better render the word as RIVER OF THE LONG REACHES. 
