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France._ An 1636, p.
107. [48-2] This word is found in Gallatin's vocabularies (_Transactions of the Am.Antiq.
Soc._, vol.ii.), and may have partially induced that distinguished ethnologist to ascribe, as he does in more than one place, whatever notions the eastern tribes had of a Supreme Being to the teachings of the Quakers. [48-3] Bruyas, _Radices Verborum Iroquaeorum_, p.84.This work is in Shea's Library of American Linguistics, and is a most valuable contribution to philology.
The same etymology is given by Lafitau, _Moeurs des Sauvages_, etc., Germ.trans., p.
65. [50-1] My authorities are Riggs, _Dict.
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