PREFACE. V 



lu this latter reauiug eoHatious aud descriptious have been entered 

 into more fully than was at first done, aud capital letters treated with 

 more severity. 



Since the main catalogue was put in type a number of additional 

 works containing Iroquoian material have come to hand; these have 

 been grouped in an '-Addenda;" they are included in the chronologic 

 index but not in the tribal aud subject indexes. 



The languages most largely represented in these images are the Mo- 

 hawk and Cherokee, more material having been published in these two 

 than in all the others combined. Of manuscripts, mentiou is made of a 

 greater number in Mohawk than in auy of the other languages. While 

 the whole Bible has not been printed in Iroquois, the greater portion of 

 it has been printed in both the Cherokee and the Mohawk. 



Of grammars, we have printed in Cherokee that of Gabelentz and 

 the unfinished one by Pickering; in Mohawk, Cuoq's "Etudes philolo- 

 giques" aud his " Jugemeut erroue," and in manuscript the rather ex- 

 tensive treatise by Marcoux; in Iluron, that by Chaumouot in i)riut^ 

 aud a number of manuscripts by various reverend fathers. In most of 

 the remaiuing languages also, mention is made of more or less exten- 

 sive grammatic treatises, either in priut or in manuscript. 



In dictionaries, the more important in priut are those of the Huron by 

 Sagard, the Mohawk by Bruyas aud by Cuoq, aud the Onondaga edited 

 by Dr. Shea. In the Seneca mentiou is made of one manuscript die. 

 tiouary, aud iu the Tuskarora of two. One of the latter, that by Mr. 

 Hewitt, will, when finished, be by far the most extensive we now have 

 knowledge of iu auy of the Iroquoian languages. 



Of Cherokee texts iu Roman characters, but two will be found ineu- 

 tioned herein, both of them spelling books; the one by Buttrick aud 

 Brown, printed in 1819, the other by Wofitbrd, printed iu 1821— both 

 issued before the invention of the Cherokee syllabary. 



To the Iroquoian perhaps belongs the honor of being the first of our 

 American families of languages to be placed upon record. At auy rate 

 it is the first of which we have auy positive knowledge, the vocabularies 

 appearing in the account of Cartier's second voyage to America, pub- 

 lished at Paris in 1545, antedating all other publications touching this 

 subject except the pseudo-Mexican doctrime Christiana^' of 3528 aud 1539. 

 It is probable, indeed, that printed record of some of Cartier's linguistics 

 was made earlier than 1545. The second voyage, iu the account of which 

 the vocabularies mentioned above appeared, was made in 1535, aud the 

 first voyage in 1534. ISTo copy of the first edition of the account of the 

 first voyage is known to exist; aud although we can not fix the date of 

 its publication, it is fair to assume that it appeared previous to the 

 account of the second voyage. It is also fair to assume that it contained 

 a vocabulary of the people of New France, as the first translation of 



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