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Page 124
... thou- sand souls . We have only two vocabularies of the Dahcota dialects . That of the Yanktons was obtained by Dr. Say . That of the eastern Dahcotas of the Mississippi has been principally extract- ed from one transmitted by General ...
... thou- sand souls . We have only two vocabularies of the Dahcota dialects . That of the Yanktons was obtained by Dr. Say . That of the eastern Dahcotas of the Mississippi has been principally extract- ed from one transmitted by General ...
Page 132
... thou- sand five hundred , and their population at thirty thousand . They occupy , as hunting - grounds , the whole territory west of the Minetares and of the one hundred and third degree of west longitude to the Rocky Mountains , and ...
... thou- sand five hundred , and their population at thirty thousand . They occupy , as hunting - grounds , the whole territory west of the Minetares and of the one hundred and third degree of west longitude to the Rocky Mountains , and ...
Page 153
... thou- sand square miles supplied game enough to sustain a population of five thousand souls , and that the labor of women afforded a supply equal to three fourths of the subsistence of the whole population , a most favorable supposition ...
... thou- sand square miles supplied game enough to sustain a population of five thousand souls , and that the labor of women afforded a supply equal to three fourths of the subsistence of the whole population , a most favorable supposition ...
Page 172
... thou and I ; you and I ; you two ; you all ; they . Of these combinations , the two last are the indefinite plural for the second and third persons ; the first , third , and fifth are three distinct forms of the dual ; the second and ...
... thou and I ; you and I ; you two ; you all ; they . Of these combinations , the two last are the indefinite plural for the second and third persons ; the first , third , and fifth are three distinct forms of the dual ; the second and ...
Page 173
... thou and I , ' kiarascsa ; ' he and I , ' aiarascsa ; ' we , several of us ' ( nous autres ) asarascsa ; ' we along with you , ' esarascsa . In the Eskimau , the dual applies not only to pronouns , but also to nouns which , in that ...
... thou and I , ' kiarascsa ; ' he and I , ' aiarascsa ; ' we , several of us ' ( nous autres ) asarascsa ; ' we along with you , ' esarascsa . In the Eskimau , the dual applies not only to pronouns , but also to nouns which , in that ...
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