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The Hon Johu R. Bartlett, now secretary of the State of Rhode Island, many 

 yearsa^o m-epared a very elaborate paper, giving all the " authontiea" on this 

 Sec? and, ^f I am not mistaken, published it at the request of the ^ elsh 

 dtS of New York. He certainly can elucidate the history of the legend if 

 Mv MpMisters desires to pursue the inquiry in that direction. 



i do n^t Tow^^^^^^^^^ think it necessary to dwell upon that point, or the im- 

 Jbability of a^hange of color and feature. The character of the language of 

 Fhe Nav%s is well known. Vocabularies, more or less extensive, have been 

 the ^a^J^J^^ '" T; ^-^g ^ various officers of the army, government agents, 

 ^nfb; M B^iXtt hSf.^ From these the late Pi^fessor Wm. W. Turner 

 demonstrid, long since, its affinity with the great Athapascan or Chepewyan 

 S a femi y oc'cupying the northern part of the continent, next south of the 

 S^'timanrand extending from the shores of Hudson's bay to those of the 



totheLmeTam^^^^^ All these form links in the chain connecting the Navajos 

 aU Apaches '"th the parent stock, and show that the migration southward of 

 fhP Athabascans took place by routes west of the Rocky mountains. 



In fine the^Nav^^^ Apaches are offshoots of an extreme nor bern race 



who hte' wand^-ed'southward^ just as the Camanches are a bxjjnch of the Sho- 



1 CnVoc Af Orpfrnn I have by me vocabularies ot almost eveiy uiue 



SfTbr^reaffty anrinassufe yo/that tte verbal simM^^ 



1 to S CO— 'origin. But m/opiniou is not needed m corroboration of 



'^llifaXr ll'trtb':;!,re tbe comrnon pattern of fc 



made, it is true, exceedingly well. 



Very respectfully, your obedient servant. 



From M. M. Lisboa, late Brazilian minister to the United States. 



Rio de Janeiro, December 17, 1864. 

 ^ o T t;;i «Af- fnvo-Pt mv offer to you, and immediately on my 



rirr;adr iSrentio': I olained oriers which gave me .atirfaction, and 



n'hiv^::rrs:dl"?™ran^^^^ 



say heZt volume, for the coutiauaUon has »?' y^' b|- [."f^^f 4s" iS 

 avf preparing at the museum a <^°"-f " "^ "^ £ Ion myTelf to delcare 

 St^'ruit r ohlTclt^s a co.^?etllectio^n can\nly be made 



by degrees. TTi'stnrlpsl qnd Geoo-raphical Institute 



I have also obtained an order from t^f,^^^^°Xtinrrthe llevista) be sent to 

 of Bra.il that a set of their three-monthly P^^^^^^^M ^^^e an e t le boxes in 

 you. You will find that some of t^e volumes are y^^^^'^^'^^^^^l^^^i^i^.i^ed they 

 which they were kept have been destroyed j but it tliey are lep 

 will be sent to you. i 



