WAKASHAN LANGUAGES. 



Brabant (A. J.) — Coutiuued. 



Imliaus. luay feel a desire to use my notes to 

 facilitate for tbeuiaelves the study of the lan- 

 guage. I have followed the order generally 

 adopted iu the writing of a grammar, beginning 

 with the nouns, their gender, number, etc. ; 

 then the adjectives, degrees of compari.son, 

 diminutives, the numerals ; next come the pro- 

 nouns, followed by the verbs, with their differ- 

 ent forms of conjugation. This part is proper 

 to the Hesquiata, Mowachats, and Makcbelats, 

 the affix slightly differing iu the language of 

 the other tribes. I have only a short chapter 

 about the adverbs ; but I have collected several 

 hundred affixes and prefixes which play an 

 important role in the use of the language. These 

 are amply explained by examples. 



"While teaching school I translated our class 

 book, Learning to s-pcll, to read, to ivnle, and to 

 compose, by J. A. Jacobs, A. M., principal of 

 the Kentucky Institution for the Education of 

 Deaf Mutes. 



" Bishop Seghers in 1874 translated some of 

 the Catholic prayers, but under very unfavor- 

 able circumstances. A few years later I was 

 instructed by his successor to overhaul them 

 and put them in their yiresent shape. I trans- 

 lated the small Chinook catechism of Bishop 

 Demers, afterwards selecting the principal 

 parts and putting it into a more succinct form 

 for the use of adults. 



"En passant, I agree with you that the name 

 of the language of this coast ought to remain 

 the Nutka language; the term Aht, whicli lia.s 

 been adopted lately by certain parties, being a 

 useless innovation, calculated to cause coufu- 

 .sion, besides not conveying the sound or the 

 meaning which it is intended to convey. 



"I may add that the word Nutka is the fre- 

 quentative of Nutkshitl, which means to go 

 round (French /aire le tour de), i. e., Nutka 

 Island, a word that would likely have been used 

 by the natives upon the white men asking, 

 through signs, the name of Nutka Sound or 

 Island. The term used for over a century 

 ought to remain." 



The Lord's prayer iu the Nesquiator 



Nootka language. 



* Manuscript in the library of the Bureau of 

 Ethnology. It is a copy written on the back of 

 a letter dated September 19, 1889, from the Rev. 

 J. B. Boulet, Sehome, Wash. In a sub.sequent 

 letter Father Boulet informs me that "it was 

 copied from a copy I have in my possession, 

 written by the Rev. A.J. Brabant, a missionary 

 on the west coast of Vancouver Island. In all 

 probability the reverend gentleman is himself 

 the translator, as he has been on that coast for 

 twenty years." 



Brinley (George). See Trumbull (J. H.) 

 Brinton : This word following a title or within 

 parentheses after a note indicates that a copy of 

 the work referred to lias been seen by the com- 

 piler in the lilirary of Dr. D. G. Brinton, Phila- 

 delphia, Pa. I 



Brinton {Dr. Daniel Garrisouj. The 

 Aniericau Race : | A Liuguistic Classi- 

 fication and Ethnographic | Descrip- 

 tion of the Native Tribes of | North 

 and South America. | By | Daniel G. 

 Brinton, A. M., M. D., | Professor [&c, 

 ten lines.] | 



New York: | N. D. C. Hodges, Pub- 

 lisher, I 47 Lafayette Place. | 1891. 



Title verso copyright notice 1 1. dedica- 

 tion verso l)lank 1 1. preface pp. ix-xii, con- 

 tents pp. xiii-xvi, text pp. 17-^32, linguistic 

 appendix pp. 333-364, additions and corrections 

 pp. 365-368, index of authojs pp. 369-373, index 

 of subjects pp. 374-391', 8°. 



Liuguistic classification of the North Pacific 

 stocks (pp. 108-109) includes the Kwakiootl or 

 Haeltzukian (Heiltzuk, Kwakiutl, Quaisla), 

 and Nutka or Wakashan (Aht, Nootka, 

 Wakash), p. 108. 



Copies seen : Bureau of Ethnology, Fames 

 Pilling. 



Daniel Garrison Brinton, ethnologist, born in 

 Cliester County, Pa., May 13, 1837. He was 

 graduated at Yale in 1858 and at the Jefi'erson 

 Medical College in 1861, after which he spent a 

 year in Europe in study and in travel. On his 

 return he entered the army, in August, 1862, as 

 acting assistant surgeon. In February of the 

 following year he was commissioned surgeon 

 and served as surgeon in chief of the second 

 division, eleventh corps. He was present at the 

 battles of Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and 

 other engagements, and was appointed medical 

 director of liis corps in October, 1863. In cou- 

 sequenceof a sunstroke received soon afti-r tlie 

 battle of Gettysburg he was disqualified for 

 active service, and in the autumn of that year he 

 became superintendent of hospitals at Quincy 

 and Springfield, 111., until August, 1865, when, 

 the civil war having closed, he was brevetted 

 lieutenant-colonel and discharged. He theu 

 settled in Philadelphia, where he became editor 

 of The Medical and Surgical Reporter, and 

 also of the quarterly Compendium of Medical 

 Science. Dr. Brinton has likewise been a 

 constant contributor to other medical journals, 

 chiefly on questions of public medicine and 

 hygiene, and has edited .several volumes on 

 therapeutics and diagnosis, especially th(! pop- 

 ular series known as Napheys's Modern Ther- 

 apeutics, which has passed through many 

 editions. In the medical controversies of the 

 day, he has always taken the position tliat med- 

 ical science should be based on the results of 

 clinical observation rather than on physiological 

 experiments. He has become prominent as a 

 student and a writer on American ethnology, 

 his work in this direction beginning while he 

 was a student in college. The winter of 1856-'57, 

 spent in Florida, supplied him with material 

 for his first published book on the subject. In 

 18S4 lie was aiipoiiited professor of ethnologv 

 and archieology in the .Vcadeiny of Natural 

 Sciences, Philadelphia. For some years he has 



