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or it, and is conjugated through all its parts like 

 elun^ as idiianclolavimi, idiiamclolavi, &.C. This kind 

 of elegant compound is very common in the Chilian. 



Verbs are also formed by a happy combination 

 of others, as from ayen, to laugh, and thipan to go 

 out, is derived ayethipcm, to go out laughing ; qiiin- 

 flugun, to know how to talk ; pepimedan, to be able 

 to present, &:c. Verbs neuter become active, and 

 active relative by the use of the particles ca, ica^ /<?, 

 lel^ ma^ and f/, as in the following instance ; athum^ 

 to fatigue one's self; athucan, to fatigue : gen, la 

 be ; geiii, to give being to ; jêguGîiman, to venerate 

 him. From hence it will readily be inferred, that the 

 poetical and rhetorical expressions of this language 

 arc forcible and pathetic ; but, in order to be able 

 to form a proper idea of its copiousness and ele- 

 gance, it is necessary to hear an Araucanian deliver 

 a public speech. 



The barbarous languages are generally very deft- 

 cient in connective particles, but the Chilian, on the 

 contrary, abounds with prepositions, adverbs, inter- 

 jections and conjunctions. The same prepositions, 

 which in the Latin arc placed after the noun occupy 

 a similar position in the Chilian, as pie, towards ; 

 ciitu, until ■; via, therefore. The compound adverbs 

 are formed by adding to the adjectives, and also to 

 the verbs gechi or quechi, as thepengechi, cheerfully ; 

 cumequechi, spontaneously, &C. These are ren- 

 dered negative by the introduction of the particle 

 720, as thepengenochi. The numerals end in chi, mel, 

 omita ; as marichi, ten times ; this latter adverb is 

 also used, as it was by the Pytliagoreans, in an un- 

 limited sense, as marichi ilai/an to eat no more. 



