MUSKIIOGEAN LANGUAGES. 



85 



Smet (P, J. (le) — Coiitiuued. 



to Europe he met with a severe accideut, in 

 which several of his riha were broken, anil on 

 his return to St. Louis ho wasted slowly 

 awaj'. Father Do Sniot was made a knight of 

 the Order of Leopold by the king of the Bel- 

 gians. His best known work.s, which have been 

 translated into Engli.sh, arc "The Oregon Mis- 

 sions and Travels over the Rookj- Mountains," 

 "Indian Letters and Sketches," " Western Mis- 

 sions and Jlissionaries," and "New Indian 

 Sketches." — Apitleton's Cijclnp. of Am. liiog. 



Smith (Btickingbain). [Docnraenis in 

 tlio Spanish and two of the early 

 tongncs of Florida (Apalachian and 

 Timuqnan). 1859?] 



No titlep.ige, 6 sheets Spanish, 2 Apala- 

 chian, and 1 Tiniuquan, folio. On the flyleaf of 

 one of the copies T have seen is the following 

 raannscript note: " I'eter Force, Esq., tliose 

 documents (seven sheets) in the Spanish and 

 two of the early tongues of Florida (Apala- 

 chian and Tiniuquan) from his friend and obe- 

 dient servant I'.uckingliam Smith. Washing- 

 ton City, Jan'y, 1860." On the reverse of this 

 fly-leaf is a further note: " 1 of 50 copies." 



A letter addressed to the king by Diego do 

 Quiroga y Lossada, governor and captain-gen- 

 eral, dated " San Aug" do la Florida y Abril 1 

 do 168S,"in Spanish, 1 1.— A letter addressed 

 to the governor by Mar§elo do S. Joseph, who 

 was charged with the translation of the letter 

 addressed to the king by the caciques of tlio 

 Province of Ap.alachia, dated " S. Agustin y 

 feb" 19de 1GS8.V," in Spanish,! l.--Fac-sifliilo 

 of said letter in Apalachian, 2 11.— Translation 

 of the .same into Spani-sh, 2 11. — Letter to the 

 governor, dated " 17 de febrero de [l]CS8 anos," 

 and signed Fran™ do Roxas, who was charged 

 with the translation of the letter of tho Tirau- 

 quaua caciques to the king, in Sp.mish, 1 I. — 

 Fac-simile of said letter in Tiniuipian, 11., and 

 Iblankl. — Transl.ation of the same into Spanish, 

 11. 



According to Dr. Brinton, the Ap:ilachian 

 text is in a dia'.eet closely akin to tho modern 

 Ilitchiti. 



Copies seen ■■ Brinton, Congress, Lenox, Trum- 

 bull. 



Siicc-imcn of tlio Appalachian lan- 

 guage. 



Tn Historical M.agazine, first series, vol. 4, 

 l)p. 40-41, Now York and London, 18(i0, sm. 4°. 

 "A passage in Apalacbina taken from an 

 original letter addressed by some caciques of the 

 country now in part comprising Middle Florida, 

 to Ferdinant IV, King of Spain." Translated 

 into Sp.mish and English. 



Comparative vocahnlaries of the 



Seminole and Mikasuko tongues. Buck- 

 ingham Smith. 



In Historical itagazine, first series, vol. 10, 

 pp. 230-243, 288, Morrisauia, N. T., 18GG, sm.4^. 



Smith (B.) — Continued. 



Vocabulary of the Seminole, Mikasuke, and 

 Ilitehiteo (tho latter from Gallatin and Capt. 

 Casey), pp. 2.'i9-243.— Lord's jirayer in Mika- 

 suk(!, p. 288. 



Keprinted in Beach (W. W.), The Indian 

 Miscell.any, pp. 120-120, Albanj-, 1877, 8'=. Also 

 in Drake (S.G.), The aborigin.'il races of North 

 America, pp. 7G3-7G7, New York, [1880], 8". 



Buckingham Smith, antiquarian, born on 

 Cumberhiiid Lsland, ('.a., Oclohor 31, 1810 ; died 

 in New York City, January .'), 1871. He was 

 graduated at Harvard law school in 183C, and 

 practised bis profession in Maine, but soon re- 

 turned to his family estate in Florida, where 

 ho was a member of the territorial legislature. 

 Ho was United States secretary of legation in 

 Mexico in 18j0-'52, acting as charge d'affaires 

 in IS.'Jl. During his residence there ho made a 

 thorough study of Mexican liistory andanti(iui- 

 tios and Indian philology, and collected many 

 books and manuscripts. He was seeret.ary of 

 legation at Madrid in 18j5-'o8, made imporlant 

 researches in the Spanish libniries and archives 

 respecting the colonial history of Florida and 

 Lo\tisi;uia, and rendered valu;vble services to 

 George B.ancroft, Jared Sparks, and Fr.ancis 

 Parlcnian. Ho settled in Florida in 1859, be- 

 came a judge, and .served several terms in the 

 State senate. A partof his library was bought 

 by tho New York Historical Society after his 

 death. He edited tr:inslations of the "Naira- 

 tivi^ of Alvar Nunez Cabe/.a do Vaca " (Wash- 

 ington, I). C, 1851 ; improved ed.. New Yoik, 

 1S73) ; " Tlie Letter of Ilernatulo de Soto " and 

 "Memoir ot Hernando d(> Escalanto Fonta- 

 neda," of each of which 100 copies were printed 

 (Washington, 1S54; collected and published in 

 Si)anish under the tith; of " Coloccion de Varies 

 Documentos para la Historia do la Florida y 

 Til rras Adyac>Mite3," Madrid, 1857); "-V Gram- 

 matic:il Sketch of tlu; Hove Language " (Now 

 York, 18G1); a "(Jrammar of the Pima or 

 Nevonu'; a language of Sonora, from a manu- 

 script of the Seventeenth Century " (St. Au- 

 gustine, 18G2): " Doetrina Christiana o Confes- 

 sionnrio en Lengua Nevome 6 sea la N6vome" 

 (1802); "Undo Ensnyo, tentativo do una Pre- 

 vencioual Descripcion Geographica do la Pro- 

 vincia do Sonora" (1803); "An Inquiry into the 

 Authenticity of Documents concerning a Dis- 

 covery of North Anu'rica cLaiuied to have been 

 made by Verrazzano " (1801); and a volume of 

 translations of "Narratives of Iho Career of 

 Ilornaudo de Soto in the coniiucst of Florida " 

 (1830). He also wrote for the magazines con- 

 cerning tho early history and writers of 

 Florula. — ^lp;)Z('tort''>' Cudop.of Am. Itiog. 



Smith {Gen. D.) Vocabulary of tho 

 Chickasaw language taken in 1800 by 

 Genl. D. Smith, of Tennessee, from a 

 Chickasaw family who passed an even- 

 ing at his house. See his Ire [letter] 

 JulvG, 1800. 



