Part 6 (2/2)

This sign was understood tothe Utes, ie, bythe flat hand forward, finger-tips first

Another deaf-estured to tell that when he was a boy he went to a reen or unripe; finally reaching a good one he took his knife, cut a slice, and ate it A man made his appearance on horseback, entered the patch on foot, found the cutthe thief, threw thehi

The man mounted and rode off in an opposite direction

All of these signs were readily cohtly in their translation

When the Indians were asked whether, if they (the deaf-mutes) were to coiven, ”Nothing would be done to you; but ould be friends,” as follows:

The palht over that of the left (_nothing_), and the right hand rasp the pal upon the back of the opposing hand

This was readily understood by the deaf- the milk was fully and quickly understood

The narrative of a boy going to an apple-tree, hunting for ripe fruit and filling his pockets, being surprised by the owner and hit upon the head with a stone, was much appreciated by the Indians and completely understood

A deaf- it took hiton froer of the right hand astride the extended forefinger (others closed) of the left; then elevating the fingers of the left hand (except thu the fingers of both hands and bringing the on pal the hands in front of the body, the tips opposite the opposing wrist, and about four inches apart; then, revolving theer of the left hand (_one_); then placing the extended flat hands, thu doard towards the respective right and left sides, like the roof of a house; then repeating the sign of wheels as in the preceding, after which the left hand was extended before the body, fingers toward the right, horizontal, palht wrist held under it, the fingers extending upward beyond it, and quickly and repeatedly snapped upward (_son--sers of the left hand (_four_)

_Translation_--Traveled three days on horseback, one in a wagon, and four in the cars

The deaf-n for wheel, which they e circle, with _one_ hand

Another exa; found birds, took his bow and arrows and killed several

This was fully understood

A narrative given by Alejandro was also understood by the deaf-mutes, to the effect that he un, killed and skinned it, and packed it up

It will be observed that ns admitted of and were expressed by pantomime, yet that was not the case with all that were esture which were understood by the Indians, yet were not strictly pantomimic

The opinion of all present at the test was that two intelligent , their attention being exclusively directed to the expression of thoughts by the means of comprehension and reply equally possessed by both, without the ible to one

A large collection has been ns, and also of those more conventional, which have been collated with those of the several tribes of Indians Many of them show marked similarity, not only in principle but often in detail

The result of the studies so far as prosecuted is that what is called _the_ sign language of Indians is not, properly speaking, one language, but that it and the gesture systeether one language--the gesture speech of mankind--of which each system is a dialect