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V.

2. _Wapalaneng_, apparently the White River, Indiana, or else the Wabash.

16. In this line the three tribes are mentioned which were previously named in IV, 44, 45, 46, and the difference in the spelling shows that the chant was written down by one unacquainted with the forms of the language. The correspondent names are:--

IV. V. Akowini, Sinako. Towakon, Towako. Lowanuski, Lowako.

The termination _ako_, uniformly rendered by Rafinesque _snake_, appears to be either the animate plural in _ak_, or the locative _aki_, place or land.

The _Towako_ are probably the Ot-tawa called by the Delaware _Taway_; or the Twightees, called by them _Tawatatwee_ (see "List of 11 Nations," etc., in _Minutes of the Prov. Council of Pa._, Vol. VIII, p. 418).

There is difficulty in reconciling _Akowini_ and _Sinako_. In the former, the prefix _ako_ may be from _achgook_, snake, as Rafinesque and Squier rendered it.

The word _Lowanuski_ appears again in v. 18, where Raf. inserts the note, "Lowushkis are Esquimaux." It means simply "winter land," or "Northern people," and is not likely to have any reference to the Eskimo.

22. "Without snakes," _i. e._, free from enemies.