oIbkechts] the SWIMMEK MANUSCRIPT 5 



fectly provides for the representation of the former; the latter are 

 disregarded completely. In the written documents they are there- 

 fore left to the reader to discover, as in W.'s text here; or else they 

 are represented by various very clever but inadequate, and especially 

 quite uncoordinated, devices, as in Ay.'s text, where the stop follow- 

 ing the t is indicated by writing the -d(o)- syllable for it. 



(7) The -ti- phonem, which is so common in Cherokee, has no 

 specific symbol. It is usually represented by the complex: -(d)a-l(i)-, 

 as by Ay.; more rarely by: -(d)a-l(a)-, the symbols used in this in- 

 stance by W. (W. line 16). In lines 17 and 19, however, W. conforms 

 to the general usage. 



(8) The word as written by Ay. is the nearest approach to the 

 spoken language; it is, however, commonly written as in W.'s version. 



It appears from the foregoing notes that, as I said, the few and 

 slight differences that can be found are mainly phonetic. These are 

 not of a nature to invite skepticism as to the accuracy of the texts. 

 Moreover, since writing them, it has been possible, by further re- 

 search, to discover additional texts and to obtain from other medicine 

 men copies of separate formulas. Some of these are identical with 

 those in the Ay. manuscript. They must be either later copies or 

 earlier predecessors, if not the actual originals, from which some of 

 the Ay. formulas were copied. 



Comparing two versions wherever this was possible has again proved 

 that the method used in reconstituting the texts is flawless. 



In order not to commit Mr. Mooney's name, and to take my own 

 responsibility, I have thought it advisable to make a definite state- 

 ment as to what part of this paper is Mooney's and how much of it 

 is my work. 



As has already been clearly stated, the credit for the discovery of 

 the manuscript and for the first work on it is Mooney's. I am also 

 very much indebted to his former publications on the Cherokee tribe 

 and to many items of interest found in his manuscript notes. Wher- 

 ever I have made use of this material this has been expUcitly stated. 



Mooney transliterated and translated the formulas (free transla- 

 tions) and wrote explanatory comments, some of them quite lengthy, 

 to accompany them. It should be borne in mind that this work was 

 done by Mooney about 40 years ago, at a time when methods for 

 studying the native languages and the phonetic notations to record 

 them had not attained the same degree of perfection they now boast 

 of. That is the reason why it has been deemed expedient to take 

 down the texts anew, as has already been explained in detail. 



I have, moreover, considered that the value of the texts would be 

 considerably enhanced by an interlinear translation, which I have con- 

 sequently added. The accurate analysis and the grammatical work 

 necessary to obtain the data for these interlinear translations have in 



