47 The Miamis or M'amiwis were descendants of the first beaver tribe, separated long before.
48 This verse is double, or has 2 symbols with 6 words, appearing to be two different readings united, or two modes of expressing the same thing, the separation of the real Linapis into three tribes.
49 This may allude to the subjection of the Linapis, by the _Mahongwis_ (Mengwi or Iroquois) about this time, caused by the division of the tribes. The name of failer is certainly an epithet or nickname given: most of the names of kings appear of the same kind or titles. We know they changed names when becoming kings or after great deeds.
_ 50 Otali_ is the real name of the Cheroki mountaineers, so says Adair: this recalls the Talegas to mind, of whom they may be a fragment. The _Wasioto_ are the Cumberland mountains, meaning the _South Sioto_. The _Siotos_ were a Missouri tribe that advanced as far as the _Sioto_ river in Ohio, gave name to it, and were expelled by the Ottawas; probably akin to the _Otos_ of Missouri. They bear the snake sign in the symbol.
51 The symbolic glyph for this event is nearly the same as for the arrival of _Wapsi_ or Eric. A sea, a boat, with mast, sail, and cross over it. Every nation is denoted by a peculiar sign on the head in these annals. 1. _Jinwis_ and his wife by an aureole, 2. the _Ako_ or snakes by a forked tongue or 2 horns, 3. the _Jins_ by a crown of rays, 4. the _Owinis_ by a feather, 5. the kings by 3 feathers, the medial longer, 6. the Esquimaux by a T, 7. the Talamatans by the same reversed T, 8. the Talegas by a bar pointing to the right, 9. the Nentegos by a hook, 10. the Europeans by a cross. This evinces a kind of systematic symbolic plan, like the Mexican; but the symbols are very seldom similar.
_ 52 Mattanikum_ appears to be both the _Tinikum_ and _Mattahorn_ of the Swedes and Holm. Horn is not a Linapi word, but Swedish, so as to translate half the name. He was king in 1645.
53 Holm says the Renapis called the Swedes, Akhoures, which in dialect Linapi would be _Akoli_, meaning _ugly_ or _snake-looking_; the prefix _Win_, means either _the beings_ or snow, or may refer to Winaki.
54 The assertion that no land was ever sold to the colonists is singular. They thought to buy land with trifling presents; but the natives understood all the while the permission to dwell with them.