Chapter II: Hints and Explanations

§ 1.--Persons 18
§ 2.--Parts of the body 18
§ 3.--Dress and ornaments 18
§ 4.--Dwellings 20
§ 5.--Implements and utensils 23
§ 6.--Food 24
§ 7.--Colors 25
§ 8.--Numerals 25
§ 9.--Measures 26
§ 10.--Division of time 27
§ 11.--Standards of value 27
§ 12.--Animals 28
§ 13.--Plants, &c. 29
§ 14.--Geographic terms 29
§ 15.--Geographic names 30
§ 16.--The firmament, meteorologic and other physical
phenomena and objects 30
§ 17.--Kinship 30
§ 18.--Social organization 38
§ 19.--Government 40
§ 20.--Religion 41
§ 21.--Mortuary customs 42
§ 22.--Medicine 43
§ 23.--Amusements 44
§ 24.--New words 45
Remarks on nouns 46
§ 25.--Accidents of nouns--demonstrative and adjective
pronouns 46
§ 26.--Personal and article pronouns--transitive verbs 47
§ 27.--Possession 49
§ 28.--Intransitive verbs--adjectives, adverbs, prepositions,
and nouns used as verbs 49
§ 29.--Voice, mode, and tense 51
§ 30.--Additional investigations suggested 55
§ 31.--On the best method of studying materials collected 59
§ 32.--The rank of Indian languages 69