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His people could devise no means to attract him. At length a woman- 

 brought a little child and laying it down placed Black-Bird's foot upon its neck. 

 The heart of the savage was touched. He threw off his robe, made a harangue 

 upon what he had done and from that time on seemed to have thrown off the 

 load of grief and remorse. He died of the small-pox. 2 



When he found his end approaching he called his warriors around him. He 

 told them that his desire was to be buried on the top of a high hill overlooking 

 the river from whence he had been accustomed to view the approach of the white 

 man. He also directed that he should be interred seated on his favorite war 

 horse. His orders were carried out and from the top of the mound was erected 

 a staff on which floated his banner and the scalps he had taken in war. 



ARCHAEOLOGY. 



DID THE ROMANS COLONIZE AMERICA ?— Conclusion. 



M. v. MOORE. 



II. The Latin Term. — We shall consider next the term for Water or 

 River, used by the Romans. 



It must be admitted that the Roman geographers were familiar with antece- 

 dent literature — with antecedent river nomenclature especially. But notwith- 

 standing the fact that the Latin was a composite language, there are many words 

 therein, the existance of which were unknown until the Roman language had its 

 birth and became fixed in the literature of the world. Among these words was 

 the well-known term Aqua, with its peculiar Latin pronunciation. Although a 

 cognate of the Sanscrit and the Celtic terms, the equivalent of our word for water 

 or river, its birth is at a well-defined historical period. 



And yet if we accept the testimonies of the early explorers of America, this 

 word Aqua was well and thoroughly known, and correctly spoken, by the native 

 peoples here wherever the foot of the pioneer trod. 



The very first river names recorded by Columbus and the secretaries of his 

 expeditions reveal the word Aqua. The revelations come to us tinged with the 

 Spanish of the writers, and very naturally so too, in the garb of "agua"— this 

 being the Spanish writing of the Latin term. But the examples are recorded as 

 "native, words." Among others are Xagua, Xaragua, Cubagua, and Yagua or 

 Yagui. ^ 



The initial X in these examples is but the Spanish representation of our En- 

 glish Ch : an English transcript of the same syllabic sounds would give the word. 

 Xaragua as Charaqua. 



2 Irving— Astoria. 



1 See Irving's " Columbus," Vol. 1, p. 154. 



