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The Na-ishi Apache, about four huudred in number and 

 formerly roaming with the Kaiowe, furnished also a large 

 amount of terras, exceeding fifteen hundred. 



There are a few verbal similarities between the Kaiowe and 

 the Shoshoni languages, but apparently not enough to indicate 

 anything more than long association of these peoples. The 

 Kaiowe has a dual in the intransitive verb and in some nouns. 

 There are more than a dozen different modes of forming the 

 plural of nouns. The subject pronoun is incorporated with 

 the verb as a prefix, and every tense has a diff"erent subject 

 pronoun, as in Otomi and other languages of southern Mexico. 



Vocabularies were also obtained of Delaware, Ottawa, Yu- 

 chi, Caddo, Wichita, and of the hitherto unstudied Caddo dia- 

 lects of Anadarko and Yatassi. 



In spite of persevering search it was not possible to find any 

 of the Bidai or the Tonica in Texas, although it is probable 

 that some of them survived in that State as late as 1850. 



Mr. Gatschet then passed a whole month among the Ata- 

 kapa at Lake Charles, the county seat of Calcasieu parish, 

 Louisiana. Of the two dialects traceable, only the western one 

 seems to exist now, being still spoken by a few women living 

 at the town. The language is sonorous, but strongly nasal. 



Returning to the Indian Territory, after a fruitless search for 

 the Tonica and Adai, he stopped at Eufaula, Creek Nation, to 

 meet a Na'htchi Indian named Lasley, about sixty years old, 

 who had represented his tribe in the councils of the Creek 

 Nation. This man explained his Na'htchi terms and phrases by 

 Creek equivalents, and these had to be translated into English 

 to obtain full light concerning the Na'htchi terms. One legend- 

 ary text was also obtained. The language is rather conso- 

 nantal and has a multiplicity of verbal forms. 



Among the Yuchi tribe on Middle ArkansTis river, south- 

 western bank, and over 40 miles fi-om Muscogee Station, Indian 

 Territory, he remained but a week, too short a time to obtain 

 full information respecting this interesting language. There 

 are five or six hundred Yuchi still living on this tract. Two 

 texts and a few popular songs, with one thousand terms of the 

 language, were obtained. 



