20 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 



He said the Catawba Indians dwelt in South Carolina, in the 

 vicinity of the Woccons and Tuscaroras, inhaVjiting the district to the 

 south of these. The language of the Woccons and that of the 

 Catawbas appear to be nearly allied. Other than this the philo- 

 logical, relations of the latter are somewhat uncertain. The object of 

 the paper was to show the conn -ction of the Catawba language with 

 the Siouan family of speech, by comparison of vocabulary. Mr. 

 Horatio Hale has shown from a vocabulary taken down from the lips 

 of the last surviver of the Tutelos (a tribe who formerly dwelt in 

 Carolina), that the language of these belongs to the Siouan stock. 

 Rev. J. Owen Dorsey has shown that the whole of the Siouan tribes 

 (Dakotas, Kansas, Omahas, Ottos, etc.) formerly dwelt east of the 

 ^lissLssippi. It seemed, therefore, considering certain remarkable 

 coincidences in vocabulary, that a Siouan connection of the Catawba 

 was most probable. From Rev. J. Owen Dorsey, the greatest of 

 Siouan authorities, who had some yeai"S ago perceived the apparent 

 coincidences in vocabulary, and who has examined with great care the 

 large amount of Catawba linguistic material, obtained by Mr- 

 Gatochet and others, in the library of the Bureau of Ethnology at 

 Wa-shiugton, the writer has since learned that the connection is still 

 most doubtful. The failure to obtain from the grammatical forms 

 and materials others than vocabulary, all of which have been suh»- 

 jectedby Rev. Mr. Dorsey to a searching examination, must V)e given 

 great weight. But the many coincidences of vocabulary remain as 

 yet unexplained except by the theory of Siouan connection. The 

 writer also noticed coincidences in vocabulary Vjetween the Catawl^a 

 and the Choctaw-Muskogee and related language.s. One of the most 

 remarkable is the word for " buffalo," which, with local colouring, is 

 the same in Catawba, Cherokee, Chicasaw, Choctaw and Muskogee. 



Mr. F. F. Payne read a paper on " The Eskimo of Hudson's 

 Strait." 



