18 AFFILIATION OF THE ALGONQUIN LANGUAGES. 
Passamaquoddy and Penobscot of Maine. They also use the form 
alnew for man. Many extinct tribes, such as the Mohicans, Narra- 
gansets, Massachusetts, &c., once inhabited the New England States. 
Other tribes, like the Menomenies and Potawatomies, dwell south of 
Lakes Superior and Michigan in the Western States. Four tribes 
have lately been added to the Algonquin family. One of these, the 
Bethucks of Newfoundland, is extinct. The others are the Blackfoots 
on the Saskatchewan, extending west to the Rocky Mountains; and 
the Arrapahoes and Shyennes farther to the south. Dr. Latham has 
suggested a connection of the Blackfoot with the Hailtsa in the neigh- 
bourhood of Vancouver’s Island, thus linking the Algonquin with the 
Was languages of the Pacific coast. It is but a suggestion, however, 
and I have not been able to verify the connection. But there seem 
good reasons for finding Algonquin resemblances among the Sahaptin 
or Nez Pereé tribes, whose habitat lies farther south on the same side 
of the Rocky Mountains, over against the Blackfoot and Shyenne 
country. Let this be established, and the Algonquin area extends 
across the whole continent from the east to the extreme west. To 
the Sahaptin relationship I make for the present no reference. 
The Old World family of languages with which I have affiliated the 
Algonquin dialects is the Malay-Polynesian, a vast group extending 
from the Malayan peninsula to New Zealand, and from Madagascar 
to Easter Island. My vocabularies, while sufficiently extensive to 
indicate the relationship of the two families, are not sufficiently so to 
permit me to point out the particular divisions, Malay or Polynesian, 
Micronesian or Polynesian proper,with which the Algonquins coincide. 
Nor do I imagine for a moment that the Algonquins are the only 
American tribes whose course of migration is to be found in the line 
of Malay-Polynesian languages and influence. In the tables which 
accompany this paper I have taken a selection of words, thirty in all, 
representing nouns, adjectives and verbs, the most simple and charac- 
teristic, and thus least liable to suffer from foreign influences ; and, 
grouping them according to their varying Algonqtin forms, have 
compared them with analogous forms occurring within the Malay- 
Polynesian languages. They will be found to present such close and 
widespread resemblances as, I think, to render difficult the task of 
the objector. At the same time, the very partial representation of 
the Malay-Polynesian languages which my materials have enabled 
me to give, leads to the belief that, with a more extensive stock of 
