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the plural is formed, as in Caribbee*, in on ; 

 teure, himself, teurecon, themselves ; tandrocon, 

 those here ; montaonocon, those below, suppos- 

 ing that the interlocutor is speaking of a place 

 where he was himself present ; miyonocon y those 

 below, supposing he speaks of a place where he 

 was not present. The Chaymas have also the 

 Castilian adverbs aqui and alia, shades of dif- 

 ference which we can express only by peri- 

 phrases, in the idioms of German and Latin 

 origin. 



Some Indians, who were acquainted with Spa- 

 nish, assured us, that zis signified not only 

 the Sun, but also the Deity. This appeared to 

 me the more extraordinary, as among all other 

 American nations we find distinct words for 

 God and the Sun. The Carib does not con- 

 found Tamoussicabo, the Ancient of Heaven, 

 with the Sun, Veyou. Even the Peruvian, though 

 a worshipper of the Sun, raises his mind to the 

 idea of a Being, who regulates the movements 

 of the stars. The Sun, in the language of the 

 Incas, bears the name of Inti\, nearly the same 



a Spaniard, properly a man clothed ; Pongamo, Spaniards, 

 or men clothed. The plural in cue characterizes inanimate 

 objects : for example, cene, a thing j cenecne, things : jeje, a 

 tree ; jejecne, trees. 

 * Mithridates, T. iii, P. II, p. 687. 



+ In the Qquichua, or language of the Incas, the Sun is 

 inti ; love, munay ; great, veypul in Sanscrit, the Sun, indre ; 



