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of war sailor, who had been captured by the British in the last war, and at an early date accepted the Micmac mode of life, marrying one their women, and giving prominence to the meaning of his name, which became Brooks for his children. Common Nouns are the fundamental names, from which both proper and abstract are derived. Abstract Nouns are formed by adding the termination oodé, wthh sounds like ‘hood’ in Eng. ‘boyliood.’

Dr. Rand has said that nouns are inflected to convey the idea of time, as well as variations of number, gender and case, this is illustrat- ed by the words 12’5a/cumam, my present chief, and n’saéumd/z, my

former chief; but it is almost impossible to separate the verbal idea conveyed in the termination.

Number.

There are the singular and plural numbers for nouns and adJec' tives, and a dual number as in Greek for Personal Pronouns and Verbs; the sign of the plural is ‘k’ for animate, and ‘1’ for inanimate, the distinction between dual and plural animate, being the letters preceding the A, forming the termination éz‘k for dual and oolteek for

plural. There are generally euphonic changes to be made befol’e adding the sign of the plural as in :—

SiM/L Animate Plural Sing. [inanimate 'Plural 1417100, (a man) ulnao/c wigwam, (a home) Wigwam"! (kW-Willi (a king) elejdiviji/e kwédzm, (a canoe) kwédunul sa/smnuuv, (a chief) sakumal' wéa’né (a nostril) wéa’miel

Note that the Dual Number means a family or a family party] as well as two, recording for us beyond question monogamlc practices much to the credit of the forgotten patriarchs.

Gender.

There are two primary classes or divisions of Gender, known as Animate and Inanimate; the former includes, besides animals, grow-, ing trees, the heavenly bodies, household utensils, and weapons used in war and the chase. The fact of their being regarded as animate may indicate that they were formerly worshipped, and if so, conveys