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and their climate, yet carried with them as a potent tali.- man the 

 cognomen of their benefactor. The name of Curler is now honored 

 and fragrant in one American tongue, and in three European 

 languages and civilizations. Two years ago. on the publication 

 in Montreal of a Lexique de I" Lamju, /ri</ie>isr. \>\ Father 

 J. A. Cuoq, one of the missionary priests of Saint Sulpice, 1 sen I 

 for a copy. Among other nuggets of linguistic lore, J met with 

 a word embalming his memory in the daily speech of the Indians of 

 Caughnawaga. This fragment of the Mohawk tribe lias been domi- 

 ciled in Canada since 1670, when they left their ancestral seats on the 

 Mohawk. Tourists down the St. Lawrence, past the Laehine rapids, 

 will remember their pretty village on the river bank, with its church 

 enriched by the gifts of many a sovereign of France from Louis XIV 

 to Eugenie. Those who read the sporting items in the newspapers 

 will recall that last spring those same Caughnawaga Indians, born 

 almost with a racket on their feet, and a lacrosse web in their hands, 

 beat with ease, at New York, the champion American team just re- 

 turned from their victories in Europe. Again some of those red men 

 came into notice when Sir Garnet Wolseley, transporting them beyond 

 Egypt, availed himself of their skill in moving his boats through the 

 cataracts and rapids of the Nile. 



Cuoq's Iriquois Lexicon, under the word Kora, says: '• Monsieur, 

 the abbe Ferland (in his history of Canada) points out the true origin 

 of this word, in making it come from the name of the celebrated 

 Arendt Van Corla*. But it should be added further that from the 

 Dutch governors of Orange and New Amsterdam the title of hora 

 passed from them to the English governors of Albany and New York, 

 and thence in course to all the governors of New England. As 

 a matter of fact, the governor-general of Canada finds himself invested 

 with this title of honor, and for Her Majesty, the queen of Great 

 Britain, they are accustomed to exalt more highly her glory by adding 

 the epithet Tcowa, that is, 'the great/" 



When the Canadian Indian of to-day would express in his own 

 tongue the divinity that doth hedge about Victoria Regina, he says 

 kora-howa, "the great Corlajr." The splendor of the empress of 

 India shines among her red subjects by borrowed light. Fair as the 

 moon and terrible to the red man as an army with banners, as is her 

 imperial majesty, the sun that supplies the glory of her prestige is the 

 name of Van Curler — the original Mohawk Dutchman. Herein is 

 fulfilled the wise man's prophecy, " Seest thou a man who is diligent 

 in his business, he shall stand before kings." 



