Chapter LVI: Letter V: From Mr. Duponceau to Dr. Wistar

PHILADELPHIA, 14th May, 1816.

DEAR SIR.--When you write to your friend Mr. Heckewelder, I beg you will request him to answer the following questions:

1. What name did the French give to the Delaware nation?

2. I find in Zeisberger’s Vocabulary, page 11, that _Gischuch_ means the _sun_. In the Grammar, I see that the Delawares divide their year by moons, and call them _anixi gischuch_, &c. So that _gischuch_ signifies _moon_ as well as _sun_, how is it?

3. I find in the Grammar that the pronoun _nekama_ or _neka_ means _he_, but it does not appear to have any feminine. What is the proper word for _she_ in the Delaware, and how is it declined?

I am, &c.