HALE] INTRODUCTION XIII 



Englander. The Guy Head Iiidiiins, on Marthu.s Vineyard, a ln'ave 

 and spirited set of men, retained a knowledge of their own language 

 later perhaps than did any other of the Indians of southern New 

 England, but it has died out among them. In the eastern part of 

 Maine, however, the Passamaq noddy and ilicmac Indians, whose 

 range extends into the British provinces, still use their dialects of the 

 Algonquian stock. Vocabularies of the related dialect spoken l)y the 

 Abnakis, prepared by the faithful Catholic minister, Sebastian Rasles, 

 still exist; of these the most important was printed liy the American 

 Academy as edited by the distinguished scholar ]\lr John Pickering. 

 RoxBURT. Mass., July 19, 1901. 

 B. X. ]•:., I'.i-LL. 25 II 



