1890.] [Gatschet. 



complimented by Nance for the purity of her pronunciation ; many other 

 terms were forgotten owing to the great lapse of time since 1829. Mr. 

 Howley produced his vocabularies ano^made her repeat and pronounce 

 such words in it as she could remember. Thus he succeeded in correcting 

 some of the words recorded by Leigh and Corinack, and also to acquire a 

 few new ones. He satisfied himself that Mrs. Jure's pronunciation must 

 be the correct one, as it came directly from Shanandithit, and that its pho- 

 netics are extremely easy, much more so than those of Micmac, having 

 none of the nasal drawl of the latter dialect. She also pronounced several 

 Micmac words exactly as Micmacs pronounce them, and in several in- 

 stances corrected Mr. Howley as to the mistranslation of some Beothuk 

 words. The twenty-three words which Mr. Howley has obtained from 

 this aged woman embody nine new ones ; he repeated all of them to his 

 brother, Rev. Dr. M. F. Howley, P. A., and I received a second copy of 

 the list written by that gentleman, having the words accentuated. This 

 enabled me to add in parentheses their true pronunciation and wording in 

 my scientific alphabet. 



THE MONTREAL VOCABULARY. 



Although this is a misnomer, I shall designate by it another copy or 

 "recension" of the W. E. Corinack vocabulary which I obtained from 

 Rev. Silas T. Rand, of Hantsport, N. S., on September 1, 1885. It was 

 accompanied by the following remarks : 



"Sir William Dawson, my excellent friend,* sent me, this list of Beo- 

 thuk words some years ago, and I had to return his copy to him. There 

 were copyist's mistakes in it, u for a, u iorn, etc. I don't remember the 

 name of the man who took the vocabulary, nor that of the woman who 

 gave it to him. But I remember that the woman was said to have married 

 a man of another tribe, and that she was the last of the race and the only 

 one of the race ever tamed (to use the Indian term). She cannot have 

 been Mary March." 



This vocabulary contains 228 items, including the numerals and names 

 of months; the words are syllabicated, and begin with capital letters. The 

 copy before me was written by a scribe who evidently did not realize the 

 importance of the document, for even the English significations are, in 

 part, faulty, as anus for arms (memayet), catte for cattle, celp for cup, tick- 

 levee for ticklas (gotheyet), on page 419, and others. The letter u is often 

 put instead of n, 1 for t, o fora, t for k, r for z, e for c, and vice versa, the 

 whole being written in a sloven hand, as all the Beothuk vocabularies are 

 which I have seen. The manuscript has haddabothie body instead of had- 

 dabothic, molheryet cream jug for motheryet, adademiuk spoon for adadi- 

 miute, jigganisut gooseberry instead of jiggamint ; but, in many instances, 

 appears to have a more original form preferable to the one copied by Mr. 

 Howley, which I have utilized, as in givvashuwet bear for gwashuwet, 



* Principal of McGill College, Montreal. 



