101. Beaver trap—The two fore fingers brought suddenly together, in a parallel manner, so as to represent the snapping of the steel trap.
102. Stone—Close the right hand, and strike the palm of the left hand two or three times with it.
103. Give it to me—The hand extended in a pointing position towards the object in request; then brought towards the body with the finger raised vertically, and laid against the breast.
104. Mountains—When speaking of the Rocky Mountains, Tarrarecawaho held up the fingers of his left hand, a little diverging from each other; and to convey the idea of the streams flowing from them, he placed the index finger of his right hand alternately between each two of them, and drew it away in a serpentine manner.
The following signs are extracted from an essay by William Dunbar, Esq., published in the sixth volume of the Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. It will be observed that some of them differ essentially from those which we obtained, and that we have omitted ten of them which correspond with those we have given.
White—With the under side of the fingers of the right hand rub gently upon that part of the left hand which corresponds with the knitting of the bones of the fore finger and thumb.
Egg—The right hand held up with the fingers and thumb extended, and approaching each other as if holding an egg within.
The same, or similar to what went before—Place the two fore fingers parallel to each other, and push them forward a little.
{284} Snow—Begin with the sign of rain, then the sign of air or cold, and conclude with the sign of white.