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or it, and is conjugated through all its parts like 

 elun^ as iduanclolavimi^ iduamclolavi^ &c. This kind 

 of elegant compound is very common in the Chilian. 



Verbs are also formed by a happy combination 

 of others, as from ayen^ to laugh, and thipan to go 

 out, is derived ayethipan^ io go out laughing ; quin- 

 dugun^ to know how to talk ; pepimedan^ to be able 

 to present, &c. Verbs neuter become active, and 

 active relative by the use of thé particles ca, ica, ¿é, 

 ¿e¿, ma, and as in the following instance ; athum, ) 

 to fatigue one's self; athucan, to fatigue : gen, to 

 be ; gein, to give being to ; jegiienman, to venerate 

 him. From hence it will readily be inferred, that the 

 poetical and rhetorical expressions of this language 

 arc forcible and pathetic ; but, in order to be able 

 to form a proper idea of its copiousness and ele- 

 gance, it is necessary to hear an Araucanian deliver 

 a public speech. 



The barbarous languages are generally very defi- 

 cient in connective particles, but the Chilian, on the 

 contrary, abounds with prepositions, adverbs, inter- 

 jections and conjunctions. The same prépositions, 

 which in the Latin are placed after the noun occupy 

 a similar position in the Chilian, as pie, towards ; 

 cutu, until ; via, therefore. The compound uCi verb.s 

 are formed by adding to the adjectives, and also to 

 the verbs geclii or quechi, as thepcngechi, cheerfully ; 

 cumequechi, spontaneously, See. These are ren- 

 dered negative by the introduction of the particle 

 no, as thepengenochi. The numerals end in chi, mel, 

 omita ; as marichi, ten times ; this latter adverb is 

 also used, as it was by the Pythagoreans, in an un- 

 limited sense, as marichi Hayan to eat no more. 



