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An Early Fuegian Vocabulary. 



One of these is the oldest known collected on the shores of 

 Tierra del Fuego itself, that of Pigafetta having been derived from 

 the Tsoneca, on the main land of Patagonia. That to which I 

 refer was collected by the French navigator, Jouan de la Guilbau- 

 diere, during a sojourn of eleven months in the Straits of Magellan 

 during the year 1695. It includes about three hundred words and 

 short phrases, and no part of it has been published. The MS. 

 copy in my possession I owe to the courtesy of M. Gabriel Marcel, 

 the Librarian of the Geographical Section of the National Library 

 of France. As, however, he intends giving it publicity in the 

 Cornpte-rendu of the Congress of Americanists, it will be sufficient 

 to illustrate its character by a limited selection of words. These 

 show that the basis of the tongue is Alikuluf, and it differs scarcely 

 more from the Alikuluf of the present generation than do between 

 themselves the vocabularies of that tongue by Fitzroy and Dr. 

 Hyades in the present century. A few words belonging to the 

 Tsoneca and the Yahgan may be detected, probably introduced by 

 trading natives. In the vocabulary the bracketed words preceded 

 by an A. are from the Alikuluf of Fitzroy. 



Fuegian (Alikuluf) Vocabulary of 1695. 



dog, chalgui (A. shiloke). nose, loutche. 



ears, couercal. oar, oycque (A. wy'ic). 



egg, lescheley (A. lith'le), sea, chapte(A.. chahb'ucl). 



eyes, titche (A. tet-elo). skin, alac (,A. uc'cblayk), 



fire, ollay (A. tet-ele). smoke, telgueche. 



forehead, arcacol (A. lakoukal). sun, arlocq. 



head, yacabed cJiepy (A. yuccaba). teeth, chereedye. 



house, hasthe (A. hut). tongue, paileaf. 



man, accJieleche (A. ackinish). water, arret. 



moon, yacabed charlo (comp. Allk. woman, acche letep. 



yuccaba). wrist, yacabed chare il. 

 mouth, asflet (A. uffeare). 



A few words show Tsoneca affinities, as : 



FuEoiAN. Tsoneca, 



water, arret, karra. 



teeth, chereedye, curr, oer. 



