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Phen'tctan and Amtrictt* 

 Ttwgues have n*> iumlnudc 



Tn America one Tongue 

 is not at all like the other. 





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AMERICA. Chap. II. 



theNi-ht, by Ho*, ™Khx. a<Rochfione, by fetra \ a Kichname, by Scomma, or 

 Skomma , a 0«tf, by Scapba, or Sfeffe j a Treafure, by 3kfi**», or Tbejauros , 

 Faffcr by«W- I t«««e, by r««o ; «. flbw, by Hom ; tk Evm«g, by FeJjf*- 

 ra,otHefpera s and an innumerable many Words more, that are of one figmfi. 



cation in both. 



Now if there is not the hundredth part of the refemblance found between 

 the Jmerkan and fhenician Tongues, as there is between the Hebrew, Greek, Lata, 

 and Dutch, accprdingto the foremention'd Examples, which notwuhftanding 

 cannot be obferv'd to bederiv'd from one another, what teftimony can there 

 be in five or fix Words, which only have a few Letters that do not differ ? 

 ^.tJMU But fuppofe that the agreeing of the fhenician and American Tongues could 

 •******^ ferve for a teftimony, that thefe laft People had their Original from the firft, 

 then there remains another doubt, vi*. To know what Americans acknowledge 

 the <Phenicians for their Fathers; becaule their Countrey is fo big, that it may 

 almoft ftand in competition with all the other three parts of the Known 

 World being divided by fo many Nations, which differ not only in their va. 

 rious Cuftoms, but alfo in their feveral Languages, moft of them not having 

 the leaft likenefs one with another : Nay, often times the Inhabitants of one 

 Province differ fomuch in Dialed, that, according to fetrusde Cieca, the one 

 cannot unSerftand the other. 



John de Laet obferves out of 9etpr Martyr, and other Writers concerning the 

 Well Indies, That there are feveral Languages and ftrange Words fpoken among 

 the divers Inhabitants of America-fox the Hurones call a Head Sionta- the Mexicans, 

 T K o„tecontli. the Inhabitants of new-Hetberhnd , Anonfi- thdBraJiliansyAcanga-, 

 the Jaos, Boppe : the Figures One, Two, Three, and Four, the Uurones tell thus, 

 Efcate, Teni, Hachm, Dae , the Mexicans, Ce, Ome, lei, Hahuy , the Sankikanders, 

 Cotte, Ny fTe, 2fccin, WyVe ■ the Brafilians, Oyepe, Mocoy, Mocafir, Oirundi- the jaos, 

 TeT»yn, Tage, Terrewaw, Tagyne ■ the Natives of Hew-Netherland, Onfat, Tiggam, 

 Affe Cayere. Moreover the Hurones call a Father Ayftan ■ the Mexicans, Tathlt } 

 thtCanadenfers^otaovi; mNewNetherland,^™; in <Br a file, Tub a: And fo it 

 is generally with all other Words, which agree not in the leaft one with the 

 other • fo that every Territory hath not only a feveral Dialed, but m many 

 Places' they ufe befides two, three, or more diftind Speeches, not relating ia 

 the leaft one to another, in one Province, by which the People inhabiting 

 Towns and Villages are diftinguiftYd. The Ifianders difcover'd by the Spain, 

 ards and deftroy'd, have left few Words behind them , yet feter Martyr fets 

 down fome of them, which were formerly us'd in Hifpaniola : They call'd 

 Heaven Tures • a Houfe, <Boa ■ Gold, Cauni ,, a good Man, Tayno. It is worthy 

 at****.*.*, of obfervation, that they pronounce no H in their Language but what 1S ipo- 

 ken with a Vowel, and then give it a ftrong Afpiration, like thcAvarbling gut- 

 tural y Chain of the Hebrews. 



Our laft and chiefeft Teftimony is Mofes, who fays thus in Genefis, Curfedbe 

 Canaan, a Servant of Servants fhall he be unto his Brethren. Moreover he Jad, Btejfed 

 he the Lord God o/Shem, and Canaan jhall he ha Servant : God fiall mlarge Ja- 

 phet and he (hall dwell in the Tents of Shem . and Canaan (hall be his Servant. And 

 in the next Chapter, Qanaan begat Sidon. Thefe Scriptures are explain'd as a 

 i™™*. of the Teftimony of the Americans Extrad from the fbeniaans , which they ground on 

 t^Z^*™** thefe following Reafons : The Vbemcians are Qanaans Succefiors from Sidon, 

 who gave name to their chief City. Tubal the Iflueof^W, whole Tents 

 God promis'd to enlarge, and that Canaan fhould be his Servant, planted Spam. 



Decad. 3. 



Gtn. v. i<;,x6 i i7. 



