1878.] 491 {Gatschet. 
Gulf of Mexico limited it, and with some irregularity it extended nearly 
to Tampa Bay; on the east the boundary was the ocean, whence it fol- 
lowed the shore line to the northward above the nearest limit of Georgia. 
The exception to this circumference was the territory lying east of the St. 
John’s river, beginning about eighty miles from its mouth and approach- 
ing near the river Mayaimi; this section was occupied by a separate peo- 
ple, the Aisa.”’ ; 
To this description of the area, which is perhaps not far from the truth, 
I would add the fact, that the name Ibitachuco, given in my first article as 
the name of an Apalache place, is taken from the Timucua language and 
means ‘‘ Black Lake.” — 
3. The system and terminology of Timucua consanguinity are coinciding 
with the system in use with the Pawnees, as delineated by Mr. Lewis H. 
Morgan (Consanguinity, pages 196, 245). Among the texts given below, 
those on Timucua lineages and their terms of kinship will be of the high- 
est interest. In the selection of linguistic specimens I was careful to pick 
out such as contained none or few abstract ideas, for concrete terms are of 
greater help in the elementary study of a tongue than abstractions. The 
status of the texts requires a critical, sifting treatment, and to this cireum- 
stance is attributable the paucity of the specimens here offered. 
4, The principal difficulty in acquiring the Timucua idiom is the same 
which we bave to overcome in the Maskoke dialects and in other South- 
eastern languages. It is the multiplicity of the suffixed pronouns and ad- 
verbial particles, their combinations and various uses. These pronouns 
and particles, which Rey. Cyrus Byington has in the Cha’ hta called article- 
pronouns, are not, as they are there, parceled up into simple vowels and 
consonants, but according to the phonetic rules of Timucua generally form 
a whole syllable. But the vowels in them constantly change and, less fre- 
quently, the consonants. This renders them and their combinations of diffi- 
cult identification ; but to disentangleand clearly understand the texts, this 
obstacie has to be surmounted. 
PEDIGREES AND TOTEMIC DESCENDENCIES OF THE TIMUCUA. 
In reading Pareja’s catalogues of the families and totems of this Floridian 
people, the exclusiveness and aristocratic character of the European chiv- 
alry with its picturesque heraldry, spontaneously suggests itself for com- 
parison. The prohibition of intermarriage between certain lineages finds 
many analogies among the customs of North American and foreign tribes. 
We cannot always conclude from similar facts, that the subjection of vari- 
ous tribes, which were incorporated into the nation, was the cause of this 
prohibition; here it is certainly more admissible to imagine, that endo- 
gamic marriage had prevailed in the nation from pre-historic epochs down 
to Pareja’s time. 
In Father Pareja’s writings the interesting catalogue of tribal lineages 
follows the enumeration of relationships given in my former article, page 
9, and then he continues : 
