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 232 A SYNOPSIS OF THE INDIAN TRIBES. [iNTItOD. adjectives ; and he observes, that whenever it is used in the negative, the termination is changed. Examples: 'It is cold/ teguegi 'it is not cold/ mtttqguensk : 'It snows,' pejak; 'it does not snow,' mttpejamJc : ' It is true,' deliak ; ' it is not true,' rmtdeUansk. One of his paradigms will be found in the appended 'tables. He has given none of the passive voice. The manuscript was entirely written for his own use, ap- parently as if he were trying to learn the language, and without having been revised except in the few cases which have been extracted, in which he gives some general rules. The following should have been inserted amongst the pro- nouns : nil ntintin, myself, kil ntinin, thyself, negeum stinin, himself, kins- k'tininens, ourselves, ninen n'tininenen, ourselves, kilau ktinineaau, yourselves, negmau stinineoal, themselves, n'tinin, signifies also, my body, m'tinin, himself, m'tininiktoh, in himself, n'tintniktok, in myself, k'tininiktsk, in thyself. IROQUOIS Onondago. [Extracted from Zeisberger's Manuscript Onondago Grammar, translated by Mr. Du Ponceau ; a manuscript in the Library of the American Phi- losophical Society in Philadelphia.] Genders. — Two genders, masculine and feminine, distin- guished, 1. By particular names, etschinak, ' a man ' ; echro, ' a woman ' ; 2. By prefixes ; the feminine prefix being gen- erally g. Sajadat, ' a male person ' ; sgajadat, ' a female.' T'hietago, ' two male persons ' ; fgietago, ' two females.' This g is used in plural of females ; as, echro-gechro, plur., and also in the plural of all animals where the sex is not specially dis- tinguished. <