APPENDIX. 



(A.) — Micmac Language and Superstitions. 



I referred in Chapter IV. to the fact that, in the judgment of my friend 

 Mr Rand, there are strong points of resemblance between the Micmac and 

 Maliseet languages and some of the older languages of Europe, and that 

 these may still be traced in many root words. He has furnished me with 

 a number of these which have occurred to him in translating the New 

 Testament; stating that he merely presents them as genuine resemblance- 

 occurring in primitive aboriginal words, and the precise value of which he 

 leaves to be estimated by philologists. They are undoubtedly too numerous 

 and important to be purely accidental ; though they may be accounted for 

 either by supposing that the Algonquin languages, of which the Micmac is 

 merely a branch, actually retain traces of roots derived from the Eastern 

 Continent, or by supposing that in the formation of the language similar 

 ideas as to onomatopoeia occurred to the mind of the American Indian and 

 his contemporaries in the Old World. In either case, the similarity indicates 

 the claim of the American to kinship with the European; and the following 

 list of words will illustrate a fact of some interest, whatever its value in 

 philology. I have given merely a few of the examples communicated to me 

 by Mr Hand, and have left out a great number in which the resemblances 

 are obscured by change of consonants, such as the substitution of other 

 sounds for " r," which does not occur in Micmac. The vowel a is sounded 

 as in "father," except when marked short (a), when it sounds as in " man." 

 The other vowels are long, except where marked as short. 



Pules, a pigeon. Cf. TeXe/a. 



Age or ahge, earth. Cf. Heb. afelz, yr\. 



Padoos, a boy. Cf. Taidog. 



Pegoon, a feather. Cf. rruyuv. 



Oo-lakiin, a dish. Cf. Xexof. 



Oktan, the main sea. C£ oxsavoj. 



Alasoomk, I beseech. Cf. Xisaopat. 



Agwltlc, it is in the water. Cf. aqua. 



Ep-agicit, it lies in the water ; the Micmac name of Prince Edward Island. 



Astow, in the sunshine. Cf. azslus. 



Jiin, a child. Cf. juveni$,jung, young. 



Amane, ancient. 



Keko )-num, I have it. Cf. £^w. 



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