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subtle explanation for deceased warriors being accompanied by their animate utensils and weapons when their spirits set out alone on the perilous journey to sté/c, the land of the blessed. The Inanimate class of nouns corresponds with our Neuter, and it is worthy of note that a tree while growing is animate, though inanimate as soon as it dies or is cut down, a nice distinction peculiar to but few languages.

The animate division of Gender is subdivided into masculine, Feminine and Epicene or Common, which the Abbe Legoyne remark- ed is applied to every irrational object of the animate class. We find thus the variety name léum, moose, while a male moose is éap, and a female ulgwedoa; ulmnuotc is the accepted name for dog, with nabésum and sl'wésum to distinguish the sexes.

The idea of sex is expressed in three ways, (a) by a change of termination which is evidently the root of a separate word, as seen in sakumow, a chief, or lord, and salcumesd-w, a chief's wife or lady; (h) by prefixing the words na/JE and eskzv (with modifications for euphony) to the common name for a class, or to a shortened form in- dicative of the class, illustrated by the use of mzbésum and S/mrésum, as above instead of na/M— ulumootc. The words nabé and 35km (modified) are joined to names of birds just as we use 'cock‘ and ‘hen‘ with sparrow; (c) Gender is expressed thirdly, by different and unrelated words, introduced probably at difierent times of conquest and amalgamation; giving for example tcémtm, a man and z'zbz'l, a woman; ulbadoo, a boy; and (wilds, a girl; netelow, a buck, and lzmtoo/z, a doe; Eap, a bull-moose, and ulgwédoo, a cow-moose.

Case.

I There are no fewer than seven Cases marked by inflection; the nominative, dative, accusative and vocative, as in Greek and Latin, and with them the negative, abseutive, and what Dr. Rand calls the terminative, though this last is rather a sentence-ending, as it is attach- ed to whatever word occurs at the end of a sentence, as when a bargain has been settled I say (3012, instead of d, in assent; it is marked by the long 13, and is like the Greek aunv which gives us ‘amen,’ or the ‘selah’ of the Hebrew musicians The negative case is quite dis-