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chose a representative of thai tribe with which we have since dis- 
covered grounds for believing the Calusa stood in a particularly close 
relation. But even so, he was unable to obtain interpretations for 
most of Fontaneda's Calusa names, and most of the remaining ety- 
mologies suggested to him must be rejected as improbable. Yet it 
is interesting to note thai the impression made upon his informants 
by these names was similar to that certain to be impressed upon 
anyone familiar with the Muskhogean tongues. He says: "My 
monitors say thai all these words are eminently Chahta in their 
sounds, but that sometimes they are too imperfectly preserved to 
be understood, or that their sense can be detected only in part." 
Of the translations obtained by Smith of names not furnished with 
interpretations by Fontaneda only that of Calaobe (from kali hofobi, 
"deep spring") and perhaps that of Soco (from su'ko, "muscadine") 
seem to have some probability in their favor. Translations are, 
however, furnished for a few by Fontaneda himself, and while the 
literal correctness of these must not be assumed, they present a 
somewhat more promising held of investigation. These words are 
Guaragunve, a town on the Florida keys, the name of which is said 
to mean in Spanish Pueblo de Llanto, i. e., "the town of weeping;" 
Cucliiyaga, a second town on these islands, the name signifying 
"the place where there has been suffering;" Calos or Calusa, "in 
the language of which the word signifies a fierce people, as they are 
called for being brave and skilled in war;" the Lake of Mayaimi, 
so called "because it is very large;" Zertepe, "chief and great lord" 
(though possibly this is a specific title); Guasaca-esgui, a name of 
the Suwanee, "the river of canes;" No or Non, "town beloved;" 
Canogacola, or Canegaeola, "a crafty people, skillful with the bow;" 
se-le-te-ga, "ran to the lookout, see if there be any people coming! " 
The first of the above is almost the only one in which an r appears — 
though Carlos is used for Calos occasionally — and it is possible that 
this town may be one which Fontaneda informs us to have 
been occupied by Cuban Arawaks. In English the name would 
be pronounced nearly as Waragunwe, and if we assume the r 
lias been substituted for an original I, we might find a cognate 
for the first part of it in Choctaw wilanli, to weep, while 
the second part might be compared with Choctaw Tcowi or ~k(P"wi, 
woods, a desert, but I do not feel sure that this order is per- 
missible, and little confidence can be placed in the rendering. 
For Cuchiyaga Smith's informants suggested Tcii-cM {cha) ya-ya, 
"going out to wail." though he remarks that the interpreta- 
tions of the names of this town and the preceding may have 
become transposed. Calos was explained to Smith as an abbrevia- 
tion of the Choctaw words lea-la and lu-sa, "strong (and) black," 
