2D PROCEEDINGS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 



He said the Catawba Indians dwelt in South Carolina, in the 

 vicinity of the Woccons and Tuscaroras, inhabiting the district to the 

 south of these. The language of the Woccons and that of the 

 Catawbas appear to be neai'ly allied. Other than this the philo- 

 logical relations of the latter are somewhat uncertain. The object of 

 the paper was to show the connection of the Catawba language with 

 the Siouan family of speech, by comparison of vocabulary. Mr. 

 Horatio Hale has shown from a vocabulary taken down from the lips 

 of the last surviver of the Tutelos (a tribe who formerly dwelt in 

 Carolina), that the language of these belongs to the Siouan stock. 

 Rev. J. Owen Dorsey has shown that the whole of the Siouan ti-ibes 

 (Dakotas, Kansas, Omahas, Ottos, etc.) formerly dwelt east of the 

 Mississippi. It .seemed, therefore, considering certain remarkable 

 coincidences in vocabulary, that a Siouan connection of the Catawba 

 was most proljable. From Rev. J. Owen Dorsey, the greatest of 

 Siouan authorities, who had some years ago perceived the apparent 

 coincidences in vocabulary, and who has examined with great care the 

 large amount of Catawba linguistic material, obtained by Mr- 

 Gatochet and others, in the library of the Bureau of Ethnology at 

 Washington, the writer has since learned that the connection is still 

 most doubtful. The failure to obtain from the grammatical forms 

 and materials others than vocabulary, all of which have been sub- 

 jected by Rev. Mr. Dorsey to a searching examination, must be given 

 great weight. But the many coincidences of vocabulary remain as 

 yet unexplained except by the theory of Siouan connection. The 

 writer also noticed coincidences in vocabulary between the Catawba 

 and the Choctaw-Muskooree and related languages. One of the most 

 remarkable is the word for " buffalo," which, with local colouring, is 

 the same in Catawba, Cherokee, Chicasaw, Choctaw and Muskogee. 



Mr. F. F. Payne read a paper on " The Eskimo of Hudson's 

 Strait." 



