The âpéRev. Mr. Cuoq believes that the proper form is _akotsakannha_, which in his alphabet is the same as _agotsaganha_, but he limits its meaning to "on est Abnaquis," from _aktsakann_, "être Abnaquis." (See his _Lexique de la Langue Iroquoise_, pp. 1, 155.) The general name applied by the Iroquois to the Algonkins he gives as _Ratirontaks_, from _karonta_, tree, and _ikeks_, to eat, "Tree-eaters" (_Lexique_, p. 88); probably they were so called from their love of the product of the sugar maple.
DIALECT OF THE NEW JERSEY LENAPE. (_p. 46_)
An interesting specimen of the South Jersey dialect of the Lenape is preserved in the office of the Secretary of State, Trenton, N.J. It is a list of 237 words and phrases obtained in 1684, at Salem, N.J. It was published in the _American Historical Record_, vol. I, pp. 308-311, 1872. The orthography is English, and it is evidently the same trader's jargon which Gabriel Thomas gives. (See p. 76.) The _r_ is frequent; man is _renus leno_; devil is _manitto_; God is _hockung tappin_ (literally, "he who is above"). There are several typographical errors in the printed vocabulary.
His full name was Bernhard Adam Grube. Between 1760-63 he was missionary in charge of the Moravian mission at Wechquetank, Monroe County, Pa., and there translated into Delaware, with the aid of a native named Anton, a "Harmony of the Gospels," and prepared an "Essay of a Delaware Hymn Book." Both these were printed by J. Brandmüller, at Friedensthal, Pa., and issued in 1763; but no copy of either is known to exist.
EASTERN ORIGIN OF THE ALGONKINS. (_pp. 12_ and _145._)
Quite recently M. Emile Petitot, in an article entitled, "_De la pretendue Origine Orientale des Algonquins_" (_Bulletin de la Société d'Anthropologie_, 1884, p. 248), has attacked the theory that the Algonkin migrations were from the northeasterly portions of the American continent, toward the west and south. His arguments are based on two Cree legends which he relates, one of which is certainly and the other probably of modern date, as the incidents show; and on his criticism of the derivation of the name "Abnaki". Of this he says: "_Wabang_ signifie plutôt detroit que orient; et quant au mot _askiy_ ou _ahkiy_, il vent dire _terre_, et non pas _peuple_".