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 NOTES TABLES OF TRANSITIONS, Choctaw. There is no pronoun of the third person : but for its plural, okla, and oklat, which mean, ' a multitude,' ' people,' are used respectively in the nominative and the objective case. The derivation of the pronouns of the first person, used in the nomi- native case with the verbs as subjects of the action, is not known : but those in the nominative of the second person are abbreviated from the corresponding separable pronouns : and those in the objective case, both of the first and second person, are the same as the possessive pronouns used in connexion with the parts of the body. The pronouns are prefixed to the verb, with the exception of ill, ' I,' which is affixed. The pronouns in the objective case are placed im- mediately before the verb and after those in the nominative case, with the exception of olclat (them,) which always precedes the other pronoun. As, with the exception of the third person, there is, for each number, a distinct word, for the nominative and for the objective case respec- tively, the only defect is found in the union of oklat with the singular of the same person. Thus the sentences, ' he ties them,' and, ' they tic him,' are both expressed by oklat tokche. The transitions of all the tenses, moods, voices, and forms of the verb tokche, ' to tie,' are, with respect to the pronouns, conjugated as the Present of the Indicative. MUSKHOGEE. There are distinct words for the singular and plural respectively of the three persons in the nominative case, and of the first person in the objec- tive case ; and also one, chi (same as in the Choktaw), for both numbers of the second person in the objective case. In order to distinguish the dual and plural from the singular in that instance, and the dual from the plural in both persons, the word homulgiad or homulgot, from homulga, ' multitude,' is used for the plural ; and hokolid, from hokoly, ' two,' for the dual. In the objective case, they become homulgin and hokolin: and, in either case, they always precede the pronouns and verb. There is no word properly for the objective case of the third person : but the particle awa, prefixed to the pronoun in the nominative case, supplies its place in the plural. The pronouns in the nominative case are always affixed, and those in the objective case, (with the exception of awa, as aforesaid,) always