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17 and although in the modern dialect, since the inroads of the whites, the M underlined sometimes occurs, it is but seldom, and always grates upon the ear of a Cherokee. Nevertheless, the trans- lators finally concluded to retain the M underlined, only changing the bra underlined to qa underlined; thus forming the word E, qa, hami previous three words underlined, - or, Aa, quah, ha, mee previous four words underlined. An aged Cherokee, deeply versed in the antiquities of the nation, declared that E, qu, ha, yi previous four words underlined, [E in the first syllable for a, long, - & a in the other two syllables sharp, as in part, - was the only word congenial with the idiom and the smoothness of the Cherokee language, which could be employed to express what had been attempted in the coined word A, qa, ha, mi previous four words underlined. - The co-incidence between the tradition of E, qua, hi, yi previous four words underlined, and the history of Abraham, struck Mr Butrick as giving peculiar significancy to the conformity between the names.] The red men had one a great ances- tor, who had twelve sons; and from him came the twelve tribes, or great families superscript a. A certain woman once had the cramp in the sinews of the thigh, and therefore none of the red med, ought to eat of that superscript a Nutsawi, Pine log.