Of not less excellence for another tribe, the Creeks,
is the brief "Sketch of the Creek Country," by Col. Benjamin
Hawkins, written about 1800, and first published in full by the
Georgia Historical Society in 1848. Most of the other works to
which I have referred are too well known to need any special
examination here, or will be more particularly mentioned in the
foot-notes when quoted.
FOOTNOTES:
[2-1] Waitz, _Anthropologie der Naturvoelker_, i. p. 256.
[2-2] Carriere, _Die Kunst im Zusammenhang der Culturentwickelung_, i. p.
66.
[6-1] It is said indeed that the Yebus, a people on the west coast of
Africa, speak a polysynthetic language, and _per contra_, that the Otomis
of Mexico have a monosyllabic one like the Chinese. Max Mueller goes
further, and asserts that what is called the process of agglutination in
the Turanian languages is the same as what has been named polysynthesis
in America. This is not to be conceded. In the former the root is
unchangeable, the formative elements follow it, and prefixes are not
used; in the latter prefixes are common, and the formative elements are
blended with the root, both undergoing changes of structure.
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