 By referring to Mr. Elliott's vocabulary, (chapter xi) it will be seen that the human neck, that is, according to the concrete vocabulary, "his" neck, is "onyara".Red Jacket pronounced the word Niagara to me, in the spring of 1820, as if written O-ne-au-ga-rah.Many figures have been suggested as first circulating a European eyewitness description of Niagara Falls.