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REV. GEOEGE PATTERSON ON 



Insects. 



Spi'ler 



Flea 



Lowe 



Mosquito, black fly .. 

 Nipper, a fly knoum by 

 this name in N. F. 



I. CuNcn's. 



kiss-yet. . 

 cusce-bee . 



II. Leigh's. 



III. Gatschbt's. 



kusebeet 



shemabogostic . 



bebadrook . 



woad-thowin (K). 



Bake apple 



Birch-tree 



Gooseberry 



Indian cup {Sarracenia 



purpurea) 



Mountain ash {called on 



the island, dogwood). 

 Dogberries (island name 



for fruit of last) 



Partridge-berry 



Baspberry 



Spruee 



Whortleberry 



me-no-mee . • 

 traw-da-mee. 



traw-ma-zee. 



Pl.\xts. 



abidemasheek (R). 



jiggamint 



j shucodemit 



' emoetliook 



by-yeech (K). 

 shucododimit (K). 



gaw-zadun. 

 mamoose. 



Beothik Soxg preserved by Cokmack. 



Sugut if bafu buth 



Baousheen oosadôôôish edabauseek. 



But as there is really no / in the language, the copying or the phonetics of the song must be faulty. 



Proper Names. 



Owbec 



Demasduit or Waunathoake (Howley ) Mary March. 



Monosebasset Mary March's husband (6 ft. 7i in. high). 



Shaunandithit - Nancy. 



Dewdebewshet Nancy's mother. 



Manguesdoo Nancy's father. 



Moomesdick Nancy'." grandfather. 



REMARKS ON PRECEDING VOCABULARIES. 



Rev. John Campbell, LL.D., Montreal. 



After a careful study of the Rev. Dr. Patterson's Beothik Vocabulary, I have come to 

 the deliberate conviction that Dr. Latham was right in classifying the extinct aborigines 

 of Newfoundland with the Algonquins. lu reply to Mr. Gatschet, whose eminence as an 

 American philologist I cheerfully admit, I say, first, that an extensive survey of Algonquin 

 phonetics exhibits no reason for excluding the Beothik from them ; second, the objective case, 

 or, as the Abbé Cuoq calls it, Cobvialif, does exist in Algonquin, and its mark is n ; third, 

 the numerals do not differ absolutely ; fourth, the terms for the parts of human and animal 

 bodies, for colours, animals, plants, natural phenomena, celestial bodies ani other objects 

 of nature, as well as the radicals of verbs and adjectives, do not differ completely. In 

 ethnological particulars there is no real distinction, save in this, that the Beothiks were, 

 true to their Malay traditions, decapitators rather than scalpers. The Algonquin learnt 



