IROQUOIAN LANGUAGES. 



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Rand (S. T. ) — Coiitiunwl. 



order, all the words that 1 surmised I wonld be 

 able to find. Then I entered all those I had 

 already learned the uieaninji of. Then, with 

 the Eunlish and Mohawk books before me, I 

 bunted. I wrote out a number of chapters in 

 columns, placing the Mohawk equivalent oppo- 

 site the English, so that in looking over the 

 pile I noticed the other day that I had, besides 

 my big book, two or three little ones, carefully 

 bound, and a pile of these unbound jjapers." 



[Mohawk vocabulary, and words 



used in Jobu, Chap. 1. 1876.] 



Manuscript, 38 pp. 4°, unbound; recorded in 

 a National Copy-Book. The vocabulary, al- 

 phabetically arranged according to the English, 

 occupies )jp. 1-25. Words used in John, Chap. 1 

 (Mohawk and English), pp. 26-38. 



No. 2. Mohawk vocabiihiry, by Sihis 



T. Rand. Ll87o.] 



Manuscript, about 175 pp. 4°, boimd. This 

 is one of the books mentioned by Mr. Kand in 

 the above note. It bears the date " Tuscarora, 

 Aug. 8, 1876,'' and in arrangement and contents 

 is similar to th(! large folio. The Mohawk vo- 

 cabulary extends alphabetically from A to S, 

 and is couanued in the following: 



[Mohawk words, and a translation of 



the 9th and 11th chapters of Luke and 

 of the 9th chapter of Mark, Mohawk 

 and English in parallel columns, with ;i 

 few sentences in Mohawk and English. 

 1876. ] 



Manuscript, about 125 pp. 4°, bound. The 

 first portion of this book contains the Lord's 

 prayer in Mohawk, with interlinear English 

 translation of the first few words, and a list of 

 adverbs. Then the Mohawk vocabulary is 

 taken up at the letter T and continued through 

 the remaining letters. Tlie remainder of the 

 book is occupied with the gospel translations, 

 except a few pages at the end, which contain 

 "short sentences in the Mohawk tongue." 



[ ] The Gospel of | Mark. | Capt. 



Brant's Mohawk translation. [187(!.] 



Manuscript, 48 pp. 4^, unbound. It extends 

 only to the fourteenth verse of the third chap 

 ter. A discontinuous interlinear English 

 translation runs throughout. The; interlinear 

 translation is mostly by Mr. Rand, with emen- 

 dations thereof and fillings in by Joab Martin, 

 a Mohawk Indian. 



[Mohawk, Seneca, ;ind Tuscarora 



words. 1877. ] 



Manuscript, 4°, unbound. Tlui Moliawk 

 portion of this manuscrii)t consists of uj) wards 

 of 50 pages, Mohawk and English, and contains 

 conjuga ion of the verb to see. There are only 

 a few Seneca words. These are follow(;d by a 

 list of Gl Tuscaror.i words, with English sig- 

 niflcalion, taken down by Mr. Rand from the 



Rand (S. T.) — Continued. 



mouth of an Indian named Johnson, in Tusca- 

 rora. Some remarks on the "Dilficulties in 

 translating into Mohawk '" itc. follow. 



[ ■] Numerals in | Mohawk, Tusca- | 



rora, Cayugian | Seneca, & Oneidah j 

 Mohawk senteu- | ces and a list | of 

 Moliawk I words. 



Manuscript, 16 pp. 4°, tmbound. The num- 

 erals were obtained by Mr. Kand, in 1877, from 

 James Jeraison, of Tuscarora, Ont., who spoke 

 all these dialects. 



Rev. Silas Tertius Rand was born in King's 

 County, Nova Scotia, May 18, 1810, ox the de- 

 scendants of immigrants who came over from 

 New England to occupy the lauds of the Aca- 

 ilian Frcnich after their expulsion. Owing to 

 the limited means of his parents, hisatteudance 

 at school was irregular, amounting in the whole 

 to about four years. His study of English 

 grammar was not begun until he had reached 

 the age of 22. In April, 1834, he entered the 

 Baptist Seminary at Wolfville, where he made 

 some progress in Latin. His stay heie was of 

 short duration, but he pushed forward his 

 study of Latin and Greek while working at his 

 trade — that of a stonemason and bricklayer — 

 devoting all his leisure moments to study. That 

 same summer he began to preach. He again 

 attended the Wolfvillo Academy a few weeks 

 during this-summer (1834), and still again a few 

 weeks some years subse(iuently. In the sum- 

 mer of 1836 he commenced the study of He- 

 brew, which, together with that of Latin and 

 (ireek, he continued during the following win- 

 ter at Halifax. 



Mr. Kand relates how lie was led to the 

 study of the Miciuac, in which lie has pub- 

 lished a large number of works and has a groat 

 many unpublished manuscripts, as follows: 

 "In the .spring of 1845 the Baptists of Nova 

 Scotia and New Brunswick, with whom I was 

 connected, sent a missionary to Burmah. This 

 being the first event of the kind which had oc- 

 curred in the Maritime Provinces, led to a good 

 deal of discussion and serious reflection, espe- 

 cially on the subject of missions. My atUntioii 

 was directed to the wandering tribes of our own 

 country, and I resolved to acquire a knowledge 

 of the Micraac language. I began the study in 

 tlie spring of 1846. I got very little help from 

 books. I had to compose my own grammar 

 and vocabulary, and I would have given up 

 tlie study as a hopeless case had I not come in 

 contact with a Frcuchmau who had been 

 brought up among tlie English and ba<l turned 

 Indian wliou ho was a wild young sailor, and 

 who, wlien I discovered him at Cliarlottetown, 

 V. E. Island, spoke English, French, and Mic- 

 iii:ic with equal ease." 



In tlie year 1846 Mr. Rand took up his resi- 

 <Unice with his family at Charlottctown. In the 

 autumn of 1849 the Micmac Missionary Society 

 was formed, being formally organized the fol- 



