ATHAPASCAN LANGUAGES. 



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Morice (A. G.) — Contiimod. 



Dictiouuaire | Des V»^ibes | De la 



Langue Porteur | \t,\v \ le R. P. A. G. 



Morice. O.M. I. | Mission <ln lac Stuart 



I 1887-18 . . (*) 



Maiiusciijit ; title vei'so and tViUowiiio; leaf 

 blank, text i>i). 1-128, double column, .small 4^. 

 ^-C only linished. 



[ ] Grainiuair*^ | Des Parties coujii- 



n^ables du Di8(M>iirs | de la Langiie 

 Porteur. 1887. (*) 



Manuscript; J)]). 1-96, double column, broad 8°. 



Contains four cliapters, subdivided into 19 

 articles and 1.32 rules. 



[ ] Mauuel | Du Sauvage | contenant 



I Prieres, IustrHction.s, Cantiques | Et 

 Cat^chisme. | Mission du Lac Stuart | 



1888. (*) 



Manuscript; title verso blank, text pp. 1-120. 

 lti°, in the Carrier language. 



Contains: Part I. Morning and evening 

 prayers, examination of con.scienee, acts before 

 and after communion, acts and hymn for the 

 benediction and divers miscellaneous prayers. — 

 Part II. In.structions on confession and com- 

 munion and the reception of sacraments gener- 

 ally. — Part III. 4r) hymns, all original. — Part 

 IV. The short catechism of Christian doctrine. 



[ ] YakoBstape" toestlops ra a?tata hok- 



Avcen iiatscphwo'lna^k. [1889.] (*) 



Literal tranglation: Sky-on-sits [God] liis- 

 paper after old-time about one-narrates. 



Manuscript; pp. 1-55, 12°, being a free trans- 

 lation and adaptation of the book of Genesis. 

 in the Carrier dialect. 



Den6 roots | Ky tlie Rev. Father A. 



G. Morice, O. M. I. [l'890.] (*) 



Manuscript; 30 pages, folio. 



Introduction. 13 pp. —Vocabulary of 370 Eng- 

 lish words which are roots in Den6, with their 

 equivalents in 17 or 18 Dene dialect.s, 17 pp. 



Les Evangile.s | Pour tous les 



Dimancbcs | Et | Fetes d'obligation | 

 De I'Auu^e | Traduits | Par le R. P. A. 

 G. Morice, O. M. L | Mis,sion du Lac 

 Stuart I 1890. (*) 



Manuscript; title ver.so blank 1 1. text 78 

 page.*, note-paper size. 



Contains the selections from the gospels read 

 in Roman Catkolic churches on all Sundajs 

 anil feasts of obligation through the whole 

 year, translated into the Carrier language. 



[ ] Twelve | Stories of adventure j in 



Carrier. 1890. (*) 



Manuscript; 60 pages, note-paper size, being 

 translations and adaptations of the most thrill- 

 ing stories found in English periodicals and 

 destined by the triinslator for publication in a 

 projected montlily review in tlie new syllables. 

 See page 70 for title of the Review. 



Morice (A. G.) — Continued. 



[ ] Twelve | Short Lives of the Saints. 



1891. (*) 



Manuscriid; 26 pages, 4°. 



[Wor<ls, })hrase8, and sentences in 



the Dene binguage. 1891.] (*) 



Manuscript in possession of its author, who 

 has piepared it for the use of the Bureau of 

 Ethnology. Recorded in a copy of Powell's 

 Introduction to the studj'of Indian languages. 



Grammar | of | The Carrier Lan- 

 guage I With Notes | On Local Pecul- 

 iarities and Idiotisms | By Rev. A. G. 

 Morice, O.M.I. (*) 



Manuscript. 73 pages, broad 8°, begun in 

 February, 1891, and yet unfinished; in posses- 

 sion of its author, who tells me he has reached 

 tlie chaptei- on the pronoiui. 



Are the Carrier Sociology and 



Mythology indigenous or exotic? (*) 



Manuscrii)t, 30 })ages folio, recently prepared 

 l>y its author for publication in the Transac- 

 tions of the Royal Society of Canada. 



Contents : Introductory — Ethnological — 

 Sociological — Carrier sociology exotic ; general 

 arguments — Carrier sociology exotic; proved 

 by facts — Carrier mythology partially exotic — 

 Creation myths. 



The manuscripts titled above are in the 

 pos.scssion of their author, who hijs kindly 

 furnished me information concerning them, as 

 also the notes from which I have compiled the 

 foUowmg biograjdiic notice: 



Father Morice was born on the 27th of 

 August, 1859, at Saint-Mars-siir-Colmont, 

 Franc«\ After the usual elementarj' studies at 

 the Christian Brothers' school at Oisseau, 

 where his family had removed, he was sent, 

 when 13 years of age, to the Ecclesiastical 

 College at Mayenne, with a view to prepare 

 himself for the priesthood. Feeling called to 

 the foreign missions, he subsequently joined 

 the Order of the Obla(es of Mary Immaculate 

 (O. M. I.) and made his final vows therein in 

 Octol)er, 1879. While still studying theology 

 and being as yet in minor orders, the famous 

 decrees of 1880 commanded the dispersion of the 

 members of such religious orders as had not 

 the official sanction of the French Government. 

 Previous to the execution of these decrees he 

 was sent by his superiors to British Columbia, 

 where he arrived (m the 26th of July, 1880. At 

 tlie completion of his theological studies and 

 after he had le.arned a little of the English lan- 

 guage he was promoted to the priesthood. Julj' 

 2, 1882, and given cliarge of the Chilkotin In- 

 dians, whose language he immediately pro- 

 ceeded to learn. After two years of study ho 

 found himself able to preach to them witliout 

 the aid of an interpreter. In 1885 he was sent to 

 his ju'eseiit station, .Stuart's Lake, where he 

 re])eated — but with less difficulty, owing to the 

 grammatical affinity of the two languages — his 

 linguistic studies in the dialect of the Carrier. 



