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language fpoken by the Natic-Indians*, who ufed a dia- 
}e& of the Mohegan, it does not follow, that none of the 
New-England nations had words in their languages for 
honey and wax. Since our intercourfe with the Indians, 
their languages have become much more copious. As 
new objects, both. of nature and of art, occurred, new 
words were formed. Thus, in the vocabulary of the De- 
laware-Indians, we find the words gok, la pe chi can, poak 
Ja can, wi Jach gank, cheyinu tey, allwhichhave mott pro- 
bably been introduced into their language fince their inter- 
courfe with the Europeans; for thefe words which I have 
mentioned, and it would be eafy to mention many more, 
fignify. money, a plough, a gun, rum, faddle-bag.: now 
we well know that before our acquaintance with thefe. 
people, they.had. neither money, ploughs, guns, rum, 
or faddle-bags, among them. The Indians donot con- 
tinue long acquainted with new: objects, without. giving 
names tothem. As, therefore, the Natics had no wordsfor 
honey and wax, it is highly probable, that-about the year 
1648, when Mr. Elliot was employed in tranflating the 
Bible, the honey-bee had not been introduced into that 
part of New-England which thefe Indians inhabited. 
The Delaware-Indians call bees a moe wahk. Wafps 
are likewife, known by this name among thefe Indians, 
Several: {pecies of wafps are natives of our country: it 
feems very probable, therefore; that when the honey -bees 
were firft introduced among them, the Delawaresto fave the 
trouble of. inventing a new word for thefe little animals, 
thought the name by. which they were accuftomed to call 
the wafp fufficiently applicable to the bees; between which 
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* This is the fpelling adopted by Dr. Douglafs, &c. 1 fufpeét, however, that it ought to: 
have been Nabhantics. | find mention made of the Nahantics, and I know that they fpeak a 
dialect of the Mohegan. Of the Natics 1 know hardly any thing, but what Dr. Douglafs has 
told us, viz. that they exified, and that about the year 1747, the nation was almoht entirely 
extinct, See his Summary, &c. Vol. I. p. 172, note. London: 1760, 8vo. 
