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and pathetic ; but, in order to be able to form a 

 proper idea of its copiousness and elegance, it is 

 necessary to hear an Araucanian deliver a public 

 speech. 



The barbarous languages are generally very 

 deficient in connective particles, but the Chilian, 

 on the contrar}', abounds with prepositions, ad- 

 verbs, interjections, and conjunctions. The same 

 prepositions, which in the Latin are placed after 

 the noun, occupy a similar position in the Chilian, 

 a.s pie, towards; cutu, until; via, therefore. The 

 compound adverbs are formed by adding to the 

 adjectives, and also to the verbs gechi or queclii, 

 as thepengeclii, cheerfully; cumequechi, sponta- 

 neously, &c. These are rendered negative by 

 the introduction of the particle no, as thepengC' 

 nochi. The numerals end in clii, mel, omita ; as 

 marichi, ten times ; this latter adverb is also 

 used, as it was by the Pythagoreans, in an un-- 

 limited sense, as marichl ilayaUy to eat no more. 



The Chilian contains a variety of interjections: 

 the principal of which are hue, ah ! /we, an ex- 

 pression of joy ; ema, of affection ; veicu, of ad- 

 miration ; eu, of affliction ; ahithi, of pain ; ui/a, 

 of indignation ; tutui, of contempt ; chioqui, of 

 ridicule ; sii7n, of affirmation, &c. Among the 

 conjunctions are cai, notwithstanding; chei, 

 camhe, or ; tuto, tume, if; cam, am, perhaps ; 

 rume, although ; ca, so that ; uelii, but ; petu. 



