22 AFFILIATION OF THE ALGONQUIN LANGUAGES. 
nesian is that both employ the pronoun of the first person plural in 
an inclusive and in an exclusive form : 
Algonquin—ninawint, they and I. 
kinawint, you and J. 
Tonga—mow, gimowoa, they and I. 
tow, gitowoa, you and I. 
I may also add that both families of language have special terms to 
denote elder and younger brother, sister, &c. Such are the main 
points of agreement and diversity that have occurred to me, agree- 
ments which I think no more extended research can invalidate, and 
differences which, if not due to purely American influences derived 
from Northern Asia in the manner already indicated, may disappear 
in the progress of investigation. In any case the difficulties in the 
way of connecting the Malay-Polynesian and the Algonquin systems 
are far from insuperable. One important feature which the two 
classes possess in common, and by which they are distinguished from 
other families, Asiatic and American, is the absence of harsh sounds— 
the softness, which has been called the distinguishing characteristic 
of the Polynesian tongues, and which has attracted the attention of 
all who are in any way familiar with Algonquin speech. 
I have not had time to investigate the relations subsisting between 
the manners, customs, superstitions, &e., of the Algonquins on the 
one hand and of the Malay-Polynesians on the other. Some of these, 
as tree worship, the use of totems and similar points, have been 
indicated by Sir John Lubbock. Dr. Pickering makes, I know not 
on what grounds, but doubtless for very satisfactory reasons, the 
following statement: “If any actual remnant of the Malay race exists 
in the eastern part of North America, it is probably to be looked for 
among the Chippewas and the Cherokees.” The Chippewas or Ojib- 
beways are the Algonquins with whom it is likely the distinguished 
ethnologist was most familiar. Fhe long black straight hair, the 
prominent features, the practice of depilation, and even the copper 
colour of the American Indian in general, are found in Polynesia ; 
and the moral traits of the Algonquins find many analogies in the 
same region, The stage of culture attained by both peoples coincides. 
The maritime habits of the Malay-Polynesians have simply changed 
to the fluviatile and lacustrine in the Algonquin, while they serve te 
indicate the means by which the islander became the inhabitant of a 
continent. Dr. Pickering testifies with others to the long sea voyages 
