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I'.II'.I.IOGRAPIIY OF THE 



Cherokee — Coutiuned. 



iiindc, (UK* case boing about tlii'co by tlireo iiinl 

 oiie-lialf fcot. This brought all tho vowels, six 

 ill uutnbiir, in the lower or uoarest boxes, butthe 

 letteis ill till) latter part of the alphabet were iu 

 the upper boxes and hard to reach. It look over 

 lot) boxes for figures, poiuts, etc., to each case. 

 There \vero no capitals. 



"Tlie Uherokeo tout wa.s cast on a small pica 

 body, and, :is several of the Clierokoe <;haractors 

 were taken from the English caps, the small 

 caps of small pica were used. The press, typo, 

 etc., arrived about the middle of January. The 

 press, a small royal size, was like none I over 

 saw before or since. It was of cast iron, with 

 spiral springs to hold up the platen, at that 

 time a new invention. 



'• Mr. Green, the Secnitary of the Mission 

 Board, came out at the same time the material 

 arrived. It was a part of his business to put 

 up the now press. It was a very simply con- 

 structed hand press, and any country iirintor 

 could have put- it togothor. At that day we bad 

 to use balls made of deerskin and stuttod with 

 wool, as it was b -fore the invention of compo- 

 sition rolh^is. 



" The lirst number of the Cherokee Phd'Uix 

 (Tsala-go Tsilc-hi-sa-ni-hi) was issued about 

 the iniddh! of February, 1828. There W(>re three 

 hands in the ollico — Harris, niysolf, and John 

 Candy, a native half-blood who came as an ap- 

 prentice. Ho couhl speak the Cherokee lan- 

 guage and was of great help to me in giving 

 words where they wore not plainly written. 



"Harris had abandoned the learning of the 

 Cherokee alphabet, and the setting up of the 

 Cherokee type fell to my lot. We had no im- 

 pression [.lie] stone, and h.id to make up each 

 page of the pa per on a sled (?) galley, put it on 

 the press, and take proofs on slips of paper, and 

 then (iorriM^t it on the press, a very fatiguing way 

 of correcting foul proof, which was the caso with 

 uiy first efforts at sotting Chorokoo type. It 

 was a very foul proof, and a very troublesome 

 and fatiguingjob to correct it, as I did not know 

 or understand a word of the language. But 

 after a few weeks I became expert in sotting 

 up (Jherokeo matter, and as every letter or typo 

 had a tliick body, it amounted up pretty fast. 

 Translation fro.u English into Cherokee was a 

 very slow business; flierefore \y6 seldom had 

 more than throe columns eacli wook in Chero- 

 kee. 



"As I said above, llie first number of the 

 Cherokee Ph(enix was issued and sent out 

 through the mails to subscribers and to the 

 leading papers of the country, as it contained 

 matter in the Cliorokeo alphabet, printed with 

 characters invented by an Indian who could not 

 speak English, or .any other language but his 

 own native ('horokco tongue; besides, the in- 

 vention was of a very recent date. 



"Elias Boiidinot, known among the Ciiero- 

 kocsas Ka-la-ki-iia (Bu(;k, thoinale of the Deer) 

 an Indian whose father and mother could not 

 speak English, was the editor of the paper." 



Cherokee. [Two liiu's Cherokee charac- 

 ters.] I Cherokee; priiiier. | [Picture.] | 



J'ark Hill: | .Mission Press. John 

 Caiiily, Printer. [ [On!! lino Clierokeo 

 characters.] | 184.'). 



Pp. 1-24, 24", in Cherokcp characters —.\p- 

 pended, without tille-page, pp.1 4, is the Cat- 

 echism, also in Clierokee cliaractcrs. 



Copies seen: Boston Alhona'um, Dunbar, 

 Sliea. 

 Cherokee. [Two liiies Cherokee charac- 

 ters.] I Cherokee jirinicr. | [Picture.] | 



Park Hill: | Mission Press, John 

 Candy, Printer. | [Oiio line Cherokee 

 characters.] | lH4(i. 



Pp. 1-24, 24=, in Clierokoe characters. 



Copies aeeii: Boston Athenieum, Congress, 

 Massachusetts Historical Society. 



Cherokee. [Two lines Cherokee charac- 

 ters.] I Cherokee primer. | [Picture.] i 



Park Hill : I Mission Press: Edwin 

 Archer, Printer. | [One lino Cherokee 

 characters.] | 1854. 



Pp. 1-24, 24°, in Cherokee characters. 



Clones seen ; O'Callaghan. 



[One line Cherokee characters.] | 



The I Cherokee singinj;- book. | 



Printed for the | American hoard of 

 commissioners for foreion missions, | 

 by Alonzo P. Keurick, | At C. Hiekliiig's 

 Office, 20 Devonshire Street, Boston, 

 Mass. I 184(3. 



Title vor.so blank 1 1. tost pp. ^-80, index 

 1 1. oblong 8". An ordinary school singing- 

 book, the first sixteen pages containing in- 

 structions in music, the remainder a collection 

 of psalms and hymns, the words being iu Cher- 

 okee characters. 



Copies seen: P>i)sto;i Athcii;euiii. Briiil.-y, 

 Powell, Trumbull. 



Brought $2 at tlie Briiiley sale, Xo. 5747. 



Cherokee. [Temperance tract. ] [Three 

 lines Cherokee characters.] | [Pict- 

 ure.] I 



[Two lines Cherokee characters. 

 (Park Hill.)] | 181-2. 



Pp. 1-11, 24°, in Cherokee characters. Pict- 

 ure on title-page represents a ni.in throwing a 

 stool at a woman. — Temperance ode, with 

 English translation, pi). 10-11. 



Copies seen: Boston Ather.re-ir.ii, Dunbar, 

 Massaeliusetts Historical Sotiecy. 

 Cherokee or Ts(do;ie vocabulary. 



Manuscript, 3 11. folio, iu the library of the 

 niiroaii of Ethnology. 

 Cherokee : 



Acts of council. 

 Almanac. 

 Alphabet. 

 Alphabet. 



See Cherokee. 



Worcester (S. A.). 

 Antrim (B. J.). 

 G-uoss (G-.). 



