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Show a ee re ee pene ees a STATI PRESENT THE OF must be noted by a thing to be mentioned by an Indian, Hence it was e. new monosyllabie added to its nam essed by simple word our expr loves, must be fhat the ammoonhathe following long Indian word, Noowomant Mr. Colden, in his history of the five nanunonnash. Bet tions, observes, (he sa) s) radical words. lew have “ They words they compound their words without end. The dge wle expressive of things lately come to their kno are all And compounds. sometimes word among them includes an entire definition thing.’’* one of the These things, considered ofa language among aan, savayes, 2500 years after their expulsion from Can that , fact the must answer every objection arising from erdiff the Indian language appears in some things very And they must render it little ent from the Hebrew. that after less than miraculous (as Mr. Adair says it is) out a with ges, sava a lapse of so long a period among rew Heb erly book or letters, a word or phrase prop s Yet such word and should still be found amongthem. And many more may yet be found phrases are found. I have just now in the compounds of Indian words. ticut Maganec Con observed, in dropping my eye ona Indians the ‘ne for 1803, a writer on in Massachu- name a setts, in its earliest days, informs, that the om : Here, being they worshipped was Abamocko. s a He i out any perception of the fact, he furnishe her-moc 104 _fat ; o Abba-mock word in compound. Abba-minGod, As a tribe of Indians in théSouth call we have er, latt go-ishto ; Father-chief man. dn the wo Hebrew Abba, words; father, and Ish, man. for Pagan -Sugaat Could we make proper allowance a in their pore ciation, and find how the syllables o more y man to be spelled, we might probably find Hebrew roots in their language. e great use 0 lt is ascertained that the Indians mak Laroa : ov. as the syllables of the names of God, 5 s Dr. Boudinot say _ Y- J- a a pound words. igious num per yah and Ale, are roots of a prod being : W ah dialects.’ words through their various ans, it seems often noted naine of God with the Indi : HI. p. o! + See the Connecticut Magazine, Vol. ° f : bs Re Po On. JUDAH AND ISRAEL. 95 eccur in their proper names, Major Long informs us, in his expedition tothe Rocky Mountains, that the name of God with the Omawhaw tmbe is Wabcouda. The Indians have their Wabash river, their Wa-sasheh tribe, (of which the word Osage is but a French corruption) their Wa-bingie, Wa-ping, Wa-masqueak, Wa-shpe- long, and Wa-shpeaute tribes ; also their Wa-bunk, a name of the sun. A friend of mine informs me, that while surveying,in his younger life.in the state of Ohio, he obtained considerabie acquaintance with the fa- dians there. That they appeared to havea great veneration for the sun, which they called Wahbunk. If tv sup- ae Indian name an is_ k bun pose, it would seem that with those Indians, the san was Jehovah’s bed. or place of residence. The In- ‘2, bed, for a RUS dians “have fad PE RE as some age POIROT, much of an idea of €mbodying the * Great Spirit in fire. It is an idea which resulted from® the scene on the fiery top of Sinai, and from ancient. Hebrew figures, (as Pau! informed tn his epistle to the lebrews) that ** Our God is a consuming fire.”’ No wonder then those Indians in Q:io, as did the ancient Peruvians, embodied their Great Spirit in tbe sun. And no wonder their veneration for that visible sup- posed residence of the Great Spirit should be misfaken by strangers for 3. worship paid to the sun. The Indians have had their initation of the ark of the covenant in ance nt Israel. Different travellers, and from different regions unite in this. his account of it. It is.a small convenient to carry onthe back. Mr. Adair is full square box, made They never set it on the ground, but on logs in low ground where stones are not to be had; and onstones where they are to befound. ‘This author gives the following account of if. “It is worthy of notice, (he says.) that they never piace the ark on the ground, nor sit it on the bare earth when they are carrying it against an enemy. Ou hilly ground, where stones are plenty, they place it on them. But in level land, upon short logs, always resting themselves (1. e. the carriers of the ark) On the same materials. They have also as strong a faith of the power and holiness of their ark, as ever ~ |
