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following are Pareni words, which I carefully compared 

 with Maypure words.* 



* The words of the Maypure language have been taken from the worki 

 of Gili and Hervas. I collected the words placed between parentheses from 

 a young Maco Indian, who understood the Maypure language, 



t I am ignorant of what ima signifies in this compound word. Eno 

 means in Maypure the sky and thunder. Ina signifies mother. 



J The syllables no and nu, joined to the words that designate parts of 

 the body, might have been suppressed ; they answer to the possessive 

 pronoun my. 



We may be surprised to find the word teot denote the eminently 

 nutritive substance that supplies the place of corn (the gift of a henr- 

 f i HI ilivinityj, ana ou which the subsistence of man within the 



