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respective systems of relationship. Intermixture of blood on a scale sufficiently 

 lar-e might be adequate to the introduction of minor peculiarities not inconsistent 

 with the fundamental conceptions of the system. It is the only way in which any 

 modification, however slight, seems likely to have been adopted. In Itt49 there 

 were about four hundred Mohegans living in Connecticut, and about fifty in Kansas. 



4. Micmacs. The Micmac dialect, with which the Etchemin closely affiliates, 

 diverges very sensibly from those of the remaining Eastern Algonkins. To produce 

 the amount of change it now exhibits would require several centuries of separation. 

 They are now scattered over parts of Nova Scotia, Cape Breton, Prince Edward's 

 Island, Newfoundland, and the district of Gaspe. It is supposed that the Indians 

 found by Cabot, in 1497, on the shores of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, were Micmacs; 

 and that those found in the same region by Jaques Cartier, in 1534, were the same. 

 For their system of relationship, as well as that of the Etchemins, I am indebted 

 to Rev. Silas T. Rand, of Hantsport, Nova Scotia, who for many years has been a 

 missionary among them, and who is intimately acquainted with their dialects. 



First Indicative Feature. My brother's son and daughter, Ego a male, are my 

 son and daughter. With Ego a female, they are my nephew and niece. 



Second. My sister's son and daughter, Ego a male, are my nephew and niece. 

 With Ego a female, they are my son and daughter. 



Third. My father's brother is my little father. 



Fourth. My father's brother's son and daughter are my brother and sister, elder 

 or younger. 



Fifth. My father's sister is my aunt. 



Sixth. My mother's brother is my uncle. 



Seventh. My mother's sister is my little mother. 



Eighth. My mother's sister's son and daughter are my brother and sister, elder 

 or younger. 



Ninth. My grandfather's brother is my grandfather. 



Tenth. The grandchildren of my brothers and sisters, and of my collateral brothers 

 and sisters, are my grandchildren. 



With respect to the children of a brother and sister, they are brothers and sisters, 

 elder or younger. 



5. Etchemins. Like the Micmacs and the Delawares, the Etchemins are among 

 the oldest of the Algonkin nations. Under their modern name of Malisetes they 

 now reside in the British province of New Brunswick, and are few in number. 



First Indicative Feature. My brother's son and daughter, Ego a male, are my 

 step-son and step-daughter. With Ego a female, they are my nephew and niece. 



Second. My sister's son and daughter, Ego a male, are my nephew and niece. 

 With Ego a female, they are my step-son and step-daughter. 



Third. My father's brother is my step-father. 



Fourth. My father's brother's son and daughter are my step-brother and step- 

 sister. There is some doubt on these relationships, from the omission in the 

 schedule of the terms for a man's and woman's step-brother. 



Fifth. My father's sister is my aunt. 



Sixth. My mother's brother is my uncle. 



