ATHAPASCAN LANGUAGES. 



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Kirkby (W. W.) — Coutiuueil. 



wards he entered upon his duties. On the 24th 

 of December, 1854, Mr. Kirkby was ordained to 

 the ministry by the Kight Keverend David 

 Anderson, D. D., the tirst bishop of Ruperts 

 Land, and at once took temporary charge of St. 

 Andrew'.s church and jvarish. 



In 18.32 Mr. Kirkby was appointed to the 

 nii.s.sion of Ked River, arriving there in the 

 autumn of that year. His duties were to take 

 cliargc of a model training school and to su- 

 perintend the work of education in the colony, 

 in tlio.se parislies belonging to the church 

 missionary society. Shortly afterwards Mr. 

 Kirkby, iu addition to his other duties, was 

 appointed as.sistaut minister of St. Andrews, 

 then tlie largest parish in the .settlenu'nt, and 

 contin\u'd there four years. In the meanwliile 

 the cliurch had spread northwards and west- 

 wards to Fairford, Cumberland, Lac la Rouge, 

 and the English River, 700 miles from Red 

 River, and then at a single bound it went into 

 the great McKenzieValh-y. Archdeacon Hun- 

 ter went thither on an exploratory tour in 1858, 

 and the next year the bishop appointed Mr. 

 Kirkby to take charge of the work. He at once 

 proceeded there, and made Fort Simpson his 

 headquarters. This fort stands in latitude 02° 

 N., longitude 121° W., at the confluence of the 

 Liard and Slave rivers. He began his work 

 with much encouragement and hope. The first 

 care was the language, and then the erection of 

 suitable buildings lor church and school pur- 

 poses. These latter were soon supplied by the 

 kindness and liberality of the Hudson Bay 

 Company's officers, who took an interest in the 

 work. In the summer of 1862 Mr. Kirkby 

 resolved to carry the gospel within the Arctic 

 Circle, and if possible into Alaska. Securing 

 a good canoe and two reliable Indians he setoff', 

 following the ice down the McKenzie to Peel 

 River Fort, the last trading post of the com- 

 pany and a great rendezvous of the Indians. 

 After a short stay here he left his can8e and, 

 accompanied by two guides, set out to walk 

 over the mountains. Up and down they went, 

 over several ridges rising from 700 to 2,800 feet, 

 and at last, by a sudden de.scent of 1,000 feet 

 into the valley, he reached La Pierre's hou.se 

 and another of the Fur Company's forts. Here 

 Mr.Kirkbyreinained until theHOthof June, in- 

 structing the Indians and learning theTukudh 

 language, a kindred one to the Tinn6. He then 

 embarked in the company's boat on the Rat 

 River, and then down the Porcupine River, a 

 tributary of the Yukon. Two miles aliove the 

 confluence of these Fort Yukon stands. This 

 journey occupied three months, and at the close 

 of it Mr. Kirkby writes : " I have traveled over 

 at least 3,000 miles; have been honored of God 

 to carry the gospel far within the Arctic Circle 

 and to a people who had never heard it liefore." 

 The work at the Yukon was then given to the 

 Rev. R. McDonald and Mr. Kirkby devoted his 

 time at Fort Simp.son t o the language. He trans- 

 lated two of the gospels and completed a little 



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Kovar {Dr. Emil). 



Kirkby (W. W.) — Coutinuetl. 



manual containing prayers, hymns, catechism, 

 and short bible lessons, such as the Indians 

 could readily understand. He also collected 

 materials for a grammar and vocabulary for the 

 use of others. The acquisition of the language 

 was thus rendered t^asuT for future mission- 

 aries who might enter the field. In 1809 Mr. 

 Kirkby, having been seventeen years in the 

 field, went to England to place his children at 

 school. Uptm his return to the country, in 

 1870, he was appointed to York Factory, Hud- 

 ,son Bay, that he might meet the Chipewyans 

 of Churchill. Here he labored for nine years, 

 and then retired from the mission to make a 

 home for his children in the civilized world ; and 

 this he has done, being now stationed at the 

 village of Rye, near New York. 

 Klatskenai. See Tlatskenai. 

 Koltschane : 



See Latham (R. G.) 

 Baer (K. E. vim). 

 Bancroft (H. H.) 

 Buschmann (J. C. E.) 

 Latham (R. G.) 



Ueber die Bedeiitung 

 (U'S possessivischeu Pronomeu fiir die 

 Ausdnicksweise des substanti%iscln'n 

 Attributes. 



In Zeitschrift fiir V61ker])sychologie und 

 Sprachwissenschaft, vol. 16, pp. 386-:i94, Berlin, 

 1886. (■) 



Examples in a number of American lan- 

 guages, among them the Athapascan, p. 390. 



Title from Prof. A. F. Chamberlain, from copy 

 in the library of Toronto University. 



Krusenstern (Adam Johaun von). Wor- 

 ter-Sammlungcu | aus deu Spraclien 

 I ciiiiger Volker | des | iistlichen 

 Asieus I und | der Nordwest-Kiiste von 

 Amerika. | Bekannt goniacht | von | A. 

 J. V. Krusenstern | Capitadu der Rus- 

 siscb kaiserlichen Mariue. | 



St Petersburg. | Gedruckt iu der 

 Druckerey der Admiralitiit | 1813. 



Title verso note 1 1. Vorbericht pp. i-xi, half 

 title verso blank 1 1. text pp. 1-68, Druckfehler 

 ver.so blank 1 1. 4°. 



Wortersammlung aus der Sprache der Kinai 

 (from Dawidoff, ResanofF, and Lisiansky), pp. 

 57-68. 



Copies neeii : A,stor, Bancroft, Brinton, Brit- 

 ish Museum, Eanies, Pilling, Trumbull, Wat 

 kinson, Wellesley. 



Kutchin. Vocabulary of tlie Hong Knt- 

 ehiu language. 



Manuscript, 4 unnumljered leaves, folio, 

 written on one side only ; in the library of the 

 Bureau of Ethnology. 



Contains about 130 words, entered on one of 

 the Smithsonian fonns of the standard vocabu- 

 lary. 



