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A Moluche Indian^, eatings an ostrich's egg, 

 and wanting" salt, I heard him say, " Chasimota 

 iloavinquin," Let me eat it with salt. Now ilo- 

 avin is the first future, with the particle vi 

 interposed, to signify it. I do not know whether 

 qiiin is any thing more than a particle of orna- 

 ment ; as in the word chasimota; where the con- 

 cluding syllable ta is useless, but for the sake bf 

 the sound ; as chasimo, without any addition, is 

 the ablative case of chasi, salt. 



The tenses are conjugated, through all their 

 numbers, with these terminations in the indica- 

 tive present; 



Sing. n imi y 



Dual iu imu ingu 



Plural in im'n ingn 



IN THE SUBJUNCTIVE. 



Sing. It limi liy 



Aa3 



