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for wagon tacked to the Indian name for road or trail - "avunyé." Previous to the advent of the Spaniards the last part only of the name was used but having once seen a wagon and ascertained its name and noticing the wide track made by it they designated it thence forward with their own name for road coupled to the one they had just learned for wagon. Never having seen a steamboat until the steamers of the Colorado Steam Navigation Company, or Ives' Explorer, ascended the river, they [[inquired??]] the name of the nondescript and the word "Vapor" was incorporated in, and became part of, their language - And so on with a multitude of words standing for so many new things of which they had previously no knowledge, which they first perverted and then appropriated.
The following table of words, selected from the pure idiom, may be interesting
[[8 column table of English words and corresponding Mohave words.]]
[column 1 & 2]
Hair  Muctkora
Hand  Isa-[z?]ié
Teeth  I-éé-too
Nose  I-éé-do
Eye   I-éé-ko
Face  I-to
Y-nzép  My-Mine
Maccoopé  Father
Eti-tié  Mother
U-ma-ké  Sister
Ik-act-té  Brother
A-luaké  Bad
A-otke  Good
Ya-vo-mé Tattooing
[columns 3 & 4]
Sky  Amaya
Large  Tatai
[[Fern??]]  Ta-huna
Laugh Tchigo farum
Baby  Hom[u?]sito
Bird  Tich-na-o
Fish  Hāch-ché
Water  A-hah
Melon  Hook-tah
Day  Anyak
Night  [Tc?]nampkéo
Light  Hotchoké
Coyote  Hooktaré
River  Hab-illé
[column 5 & 6]
Dead Mountain  [[Avi?]]-ko-acté
Dead  [[Tk]]-ho-ich
Dancing  [[It?]]-si-mack
Singing  Is-war-ké
Corn  Tat-is-ké
Eating  A-mam
Drinking  It-hiné
Walking It-hacké
Moon  Aliā
Sun  Ania'
Star  Hamosé
House  Temaupké
M[esquite]. Bean  A-he-sé[[written over what appears to be the words "Mequit Bean" that have been rubbed out]]
Woman  Tema-ayaé
[columns 7 & 8]
Man  He-pah
Mountain  Avé-Kuckoba
Land  Sel-ya-amaté
Trail  Avunyé
Cottonwood  Hahu-Arenoké
Grass  Het-vi-villé
"Olla", or Pot   Opro-A[riu?]té
Cloud  Hick-wé
Foot  Himmie-
M[ountain]. Sheep  Amó
Bear  Hatcha
[[Big owl?]]  Tchama-thlé
Big Ant  Hano-pooka
Bone  Geni-a-é
[[end of table]]