Part 11 (1/2)

[Illustration: Fig 136]

[Illustration: Fig 137]

With the gesture for drink yptian Goddess Nu in the sacred syca out the water of life to the Osirian and his soul, represented as a bird, in Amenti (Sharpe, from a funereal stele in the British Museum, in _Cooper's Serpent Myths_, p 43)

[Illustration: Fig 138]

The coesture for _river_ or _strea the horizontal flat hand, palht side in a serpentine yptian character for the sa 139 (Champollion, _Dict_, p 429) The broken line is held to represent the movement of the water on the surface of the strea itto compare with this the identical character in the syllabary invented by a West African negro, Mormoru Doalu Bukere, for _water_, [Symbol: water, represented by a wavy line], mentioned by TYLOR in his _Early History of Mankind_, p 103

The abbreviated Egyptian sign for _water_ as a strea 140 (Champollion, _loc cit_), and the Chinese for the sa 140]

[Illustration: Fig 141]

In the picture-writing of the Ojibwa the Egyptian abbreviated character, with two lines instead of three, appears with the sa 142, an eye, with tears falling, is also found in the pictographs of the Ojibwa (Schoolcraft, I, pl 54, Fig 27), and is alsolines by the index repeatedly doard fron for _rain_, described on page 344, made with the back of the hand doard fro 142]

The Egyptian character for _to be strong_ is Fig 143 (Champollion, _Dict_, p 91), which is sufficiently obvious, but _, made by some tribes as follows: Hold the clinched fist in front of the right side, a little higher than the elbow, then throw it forcibly about six inches toward the ground

[Illustration: Fig 143]

A typical gesture for _night_ is as follows: Place the flat hands, horizontally, about two feet apart, move theht lies across the left

”Darkness covers all” See Fig 312, page 489

The conception of covering executed by delineating the object covered beneath the middle point of an arch or curve, appears also clearly in the Egyptian characters for _night_, Fig 144 (Cha 144]

The upper part of the character is taken separately to fore 372, _infra_)

[Illustration: Fig 145]

The Egyptian figurative and linear characters, Figs 145 and 146 (Cha upon_ and _invocation_, also used as an interjection, scarcely require the quotation of an Indian sign, being co 146]

The gesture sign made by several tribes for _htly curved fingers, are held pendent about two feet apart before the thighs; then bring the theether (_Absaroka_ I; _Shoshoni and Banak_ I; _Kaiowa_ I; _Comanche_ III; _Apache_ II; _Wichita_ II) ”An accumulation of objects” This yptian character, Fig 147, ether_ (Cha 147]

[Illustration: Fig 148]

[Illustration: Fig 149]

The Egyptian character, Fig 148, which in its linear foro_, to _come, locolyphics how a corporeal actionobvious or at least certain, unless it should be urative forht be noticed many times without certainty or perhaps suspicion that it represented the hu The same difficulty, of course, as also the same prospect of success by careful research, attends the tracing of other corporeal ns

_SIGN LANGUAGE WITH REFERENCE TO GRAMMAR_