1S70.] <^^-'" [Brinton. 



Translation. 



Momeu, and, the conjnnctive particle with the terminal u, which throws 

 the clause into the oblique case or sense. 



estet, the people, compounded of este and the definite article-pronoun 

 nominative t, literally, people the. 



nake, the thing, or things. 



Pal momecaten, that Paul had done. 



hecakof, when they saw. 



em, their. 



opunvkv, woi^d; en, its; haken, sound. 



kvwvjiakvtes, they lifted up, fifth unperfect. 



Likeonv em punvkv ofvn, Lycaonia its language in, 



Hesaketvmese, gods, from hesaketv, life, and emese, source or font, 

 " source of life." This is the word commonly employed by the mission- 

 aries for God. Col. Hawkins, in liis Sketch of the Creek Country, spells 

 it E-sau-ge-tuli E-mis-see. Mr. Pen-ynian tells me that it is probably 

 a word coined by the English, and not of native origin. 



este omvket, men resembhng. 



ye, liither, i>um, to us; hvtvjjeces, have descended; makaket, saying. 



In Choctaw (the nasals in italics) : 



Mihnia okla hash ot, Pal vt nana yvmihinchi na pisa mvt, Laikeonia 

 anumpa ho okla anumpulit cliitoli liosh, Chitokaka vhleha yvt hatak o 

 chiyuhmit aka mintit «yvt hvpim vlvshke ; ahanchi tok. 



Translation. 



Mihma, and, with the definite oblique termination. 



okla, people, hash ot, pronoun of renewed mention definite, the afore- 

 said ones, they. 



Pal vt, Paul he; nana, the responsive pronoun definite; the thing which, 

 what. 



yvmihinchi, he had done. 



na — mvt, when, pisa, they saw. 



Laikeonia anumiia \\o, Lycaonian speech the, \\o is the distinctive article 

 pronoun in the oblique case. 



okla anumpulit hosh, the people, the aforesaid ones (hosh) spoke; chitoli, 

 loudly. 



Chitokaka, gods, vhlehay vt, they indeed, article pronoun definite. 



hatak o to men, distinctive and oblique, chiyuhmit, resembling. 



aka, below, mintit, coming toward, ayvt, here, ' 'coming toward this place 

 below." 



hupim, to us; vlvshke, have come, from ula, to come. 



ahanchi tok, they said. The particle tok throws the verbs into the re- 

 mote imperfect tense. 



Tlie strong similarity in the construction of the two languages is very 

 evident from these specimens. 



A. p. s — voii. XI. — He 



