Gatschet.] [Jan. 3, 



atho-onut twenty for dtho-onut, and in some instances has two words for 

 one English term, as in ankle moosin, andgei-je-bursut ; (to) bite boshoo- 

 dik or boshwadit ; boat and vessel adothe, or odeothyke ; and what will be 

 found under Jiead, man, moon, stockings, sun, teeth, woman, woodpecker. 



This vocabulary is arranged alphabetically after the English terms, 

 which stand before their Beotlmk equivalents, and contains many terms 

 new to us, which corroborates the supposition previously advanced by 

 me, that the original Connack vocabulary must have been more extensive. 



To insert all the two hundred and twenty-eight terms of this new " re- 

 cension" of the Cormack collection in bulk into the list to be given below, 

 would have the result of increasing the confusion already existing in the 

 wording of the Beothuk terms. Therefore, I have omitted not only those 

 terms which are written alike to the terms which stand first in my list of 

 1885, pp. 415-424, but also those which rest upon an evident error of the 

 copyist, as mamiruaUeek houses for mammateek, berroieh clouds for 

 berroick, moocas elbow for moocus, etc. 



It is probable, that W. E. Cormack made several copies of his vocabu- 

 lary himself, which differed among each other, or were written in an 

 illegible hand ; this would explain many of the "leetiones varise " which 

 now puzzle the Beothuk student, and cause more trouble to him than it 

 does to edit a Roman or Greek author from the mediaeval manuscripts 

 with all their errors and mistakes. 



THE CLINCH VOCABULARY. 



A vocabulary of Beothuk has just come to light, which appears to be, 

 if not more valuable, at least older than the ones investigated by me here- 

 tofore. It contains one hundred and twelve terms of the language, many 

 of them new to us. It was obtained, as stated, by the Rev. John Clinch, 

 a minister of the Church of England, and a man of high education, 

 stationed as parish priest at Trinity, in Trinity Bay, Newfoundland. The 

 original is contained in the "Record Book," preserved in the office of 

 Justice Pinsent, D.C.L., of the Supreme Court at Harbor Grace, and it 

 has been printed in the Harbor Grace Standard and Conception Bay 

 Advertiser, of Wednesday, May 2, 1888, some biographic and other notes 

 being added to it in the number of May 12. 



Among these the following will give us a clearer insight into the ques- 

 tion of authenticity of Clinch's vocabulary. John Clinch was born in 

 Gloucestershire, England, and in early youth studied medicine under a 

 practitioner at Cirencester, where he became a fellow of Dr. Jenner, who 

 discovered the celebrated specific against small-pox. In those times, no 

 law compelled a man to undergo examinations for diplomas ; so Clinch 

 migrated to Bonavista, Newfoundland, and established himself there in 

 1775 as a physician, but in 1783 removed to Trinity. Besides his practice, 

 he conducted services in church, was ordained deacon and priest in Lon- 

 don, in 1787, then worked over thirty years at Trinity in his sacred calling, 



