Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Lost City, Norumbega, and the New Found Forts on the Charles
The documentary evidence is, we thus find, as contradictory as to derivation and orthography as it is as to locality. The meaning of the word has been considered important evidence; but the many meanings given it by our best linguists are as diverse as the spellings, and remind one of the contents of a country you can get anything from it that you want. We will spare our readers' tears by forbearing to quote the many-colored translations, improbable. From such a Babel of dialects as the American Indians had, no value can be attached to any alleged translation as evidence on the questions.
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