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by collectors of words of barbarous languages, and I was 

 early warned to be careful, by being innocently enrolled 

 in the number of persons who had been deceived. I one 

 day showed an Esquimaux an engraving of a musk bull, 

 to which he immediately applied the name of Mignune, 

 and I wrote in my vocabulary accordingly, but I soon after- 

 wards discovered that the word applied only to the material 

 with which the bull appeared to be drawn, that is, plumbago, 

 of which the Esquimaux have a great deal, and that the 

 proper name for the animal was a very different word. 



The initials in the small column denote the collector ; those 

 words w^iich have a C affixed to them are to be pronounced 

 according to the following directions : 



" A is either a' (fat), or a^ (far), as in Walker's English 

 Pronouncing Dictionary. This letter is generally marked, 

 and when it is not, its association with the consonants will 

 point out the particular sound to be used.* E is generally 

 the e' of the above-mentioned Dictionary, but when marked e, 

 it is to be pronounced as in me. Ei is to be pronounced as in 

 German, ein, eisel, gieser. Eii as in French. / as in pi'n. 

 O as in no't, or otherwise, as marked. Oo as in moon. U 

 as in lu'^b. 



L'l is according to the Spanish pronunciation, and gl, 

 where mentioned, according to the Italian ; where not, as in 



English. Qii as in English. R as in French, and R still 

 more roughly guttural as in the Northumbrian dialect. This 

 mark (+) always points out a guttural pronunciation, and is 

 very common in the language ; some individuals, however, 

 using it much more than others. S is pronounced as in side, 

 and ss as in glass. Y as in yet, and never used as a vowel. 

 Z is sounded as in lizard. Ch is the Spanish x, and die 

 Greek x of the Scotch Universities. Gh has nearly the same 

 sound. 



* Au is to be sounded as aout in French — very nearly as ou in the 

 English world sound. Ai is heard in wild. G is hard, unless otherwise 

 mentioned. 



