and did not yet promise to take rank as a sea power the sudden demand upon this close island speech in the century for means to represent the endless objects actions and experiences of the new world and of a commerce was one of the most efficient forces for developing modem english mother english folk lore and a language carried into a new brings with it notions not in harmony with the surroundings the ideas that are in our ordinary speech seem to us a part of the original constitution of the universe and the notions associated with common words serve to local and national prejudice in the wilderness of america english speech was a an indian chief however and was forthwith translated into a king the naked little child turning herself into a wheel in imitation of the boys with whom she played at bore in english the title of princess we hear of an indian king in new who was hired to carry a s baggage and after many it is a relief to find in new england one chief who was only a duke the early into speech of the indian titles � and � and the application at last of the english word chief helped to a swarm of notions more specific terms were the result of fuller knowledge the compound bark house in which an emperor like dwelt as co tenant with numerous families of his wife s ceased to be a palace and became a it was thus that english by degrees adjusted itself to a new chap iii loo the of civilization chap iii the for in iii a perfect description of va of s c w s travels perfect of va and s va p iii mass iii iv the in america like adam in the world was called upon to give names to the fowl of the air and to every beast of the field this was done in some cases most naturally by descriptive such as canvas back duck flying black bear but the was sure to think he recognized in the primitive woods the plants and birds and beasts known or half known to him in the old world american creatures thus got second hand names from real or supposed the became a the does duty in some accounts as an or a monkey the as the largest american cat became a in virginia a and a in various places while it remained a in south for more than a hundred years the ear of the caught the melody of bird songs that reminded him of the delicious of the which he was to hear various birds were thus with the name of the european in virginia this substitute was the according to though in earlier lists both and appear in new england there were also so called painted with colors � black white blew yellow green and scarlet according to s description mother english folk lore and literature loi the region had its the brown song is identified with the ot europe by french to this day with one accord english north and south endowed a with the name and all the sentiment that belonged to the smaller and more domestic robin of england the mistake did not go for in some northern regions there is an attempt to it by calling the bird the old england robin a name that the mark again but that from its form must have been set in the earliest time v in popular thought at the period of american settlement every place beyond the countries of europe was a region of outer darkness by devils who were as the typical was the the ancient foe of an idol was therefore called a that is to say a from a notion that the prophet was a false god it may have been from this general of all the world that lay without that some plants and animals from the new world easily got the name of turkey or attached to them the fowl we call by that name was in french a or indian cock whence the modern french and the confusion between the east and chap iii new p the i the of civilization chap iii s historical sketches x notes note i indian corn and beans lane to s i etc l iv chap xvi note west indies led no doubt to the curious german name hen though even in german indian and appear in england the turkey was sometimes called the or the of in the sixteenth century so that the on which judges and others were sometimes at the time may have been of if the english name of turkey did not come from a general disposition to trace all things to the home of the eastern it perhaps was borrowed from the with which the turkey was supposed to be allied in the easy natural history of the time vi indian corn an american plant in origin cultivated throughout almost the whole western was early called com by the the name seems to have been from italian into other continental languages and in english speech it was also sometimes wheat lane s commander in north calls it wheat from the time of there have been those who have sought with futile ingenuity to an oriental origin for their argument mainly on the blunder in the italian name this mistake may have sprung from a confusion of with which on account of its origin bore the name of com mother english folk lore and literature as another sort of coarse grain was also called corn but usually com other nations were wont in the sixteenth century to take fashions of all sorts from italy and the name there given to became common even the which was one of the most valued of the american indians to european food was called the for no other reason perhaps than that 