Gatschet.] 



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[Jan. 3, 



rigorous colds, epidemics, want of game, famine, infanticide, may be wars 

 among themselves or with strangers. Some of these potent factors may 

 have cooperated in extinguishing the Beothuks of the mainland, from 

 whom the island Beothuks must have once descended while the tribes 

 settled upon Newfoundland may have increased and prospered, owing to 

 to a more genial climate and other physical agencies. 



ENGLISH-BEOTHUK VOCABULARY. 



alive mam-isutt. 



ankle; see moosin. 



anus ; see memajet. 



April wasumaw - eeseek. 



arm, upper, shedbasing. 



arms memajet. 



arrow; see dogemat. 



asleep wi'ddun. 



bad mud-ty. 



back, the, posson. 



beard ; see manjebathook. 



bear giwashuwet. 



beast ; see obodish. 



beast, hair or far of, peatha. 



beating pug a thuse. 



birch rind pau-shee. 



bird, a little (not specified), ou ner- 



mish. 

 bird, a large (not specified), popa- 



dish. 



bite, to, boshoodik. 

 black guillemot ; see sea pigeon, 

 blanket manarooit. 

 blood arrobauth. 

 blow, to, deshudodoick. 

 blow the nose, to, she-ga-me. 

 bosom, woman's, boddebmoot. 

 blunt boas-seek. 



boat bdollie, thub-a-thew ; see'canoe. 

 body hadda- bothy. 

 boil, to, v. trans., nioadamutt. 

 bow ha-the-may. 

 boy buggishamish. 

 break a stick, to, pug-e-nou. 

 buttons agamet. 



canoe tapaithook ; thub-a-thew ; see 



boat. 



cat, domestic, abideshook ; obbodish. 

 cattle nethabete. 

 catching fish ersh-bauth. 

 chin goun, the-oun. 

 coal mithie. 



crying mau-the-au-thaw. 

 currants sbamye. 

 dancing thub-wed-gie. 

 darkness washeu. 

 dead widdun. 



December odasweet - eeshamut. 

 deer osweet. 

 deer's horns magorrm. 

 dirt yew-why. 

 dirty mud-ty. 

 dog ; see mammasamit. 

 dogberries meuome. 

 dogwood emeethook. 

 ear mis-muth. 

 eating; see pug-a-zoa. 

 eight adayook. 

 eighteen ; see eight, 

 elbow moocus. 

 eleven; see yaseek. 

 excrement of bird su-gu-mith. 

 eyebrow mome-augh. 

 feathers eve-nau. 

 February koothabononfl - bewajo- 



wite. 



fif(een r ; see ninejeek. 

 fingers; see memet. 

 finger, middle, ah-wadgebick. 

 fire woodrut ; koo-rae. 



