WAKASHAN LANGUAGES. 



29 



Hale (H.) — Continued. 



5.'i-6ii, each contain a number of words derived 

 from the Nootka; in the Jargon-Enj^lisli por- 

 tion these words are marked witli an iV. 



Cojnes seen : Eames, Pilling. 



Horatio Hale, ethnologist. Iiorn in Newport, 

 N. H.. May 3, 1817, was graduated at Harvard in 

 18;i7 and was appointed in the same year philolo- 

 gist to the United States exploring expedition 

 under Capt. Charles "Wilkes. In this capacity 

 he studied a large number of the languages of 

 the Pacific islands, as well as of North and 

 South America, Australia, and Africa, and also 

 investigated the history, traditions, and cus- 

 toms of the tribes speaking those languages. 

 The results of his inquiries are given in his 

 Ethnography and Philology (Philadelphia, 

 184<i), which forms the seventh volume of the 

 expedition reports. He has piiblished numerous 

 memoirs on anthroijology and ethnology, is a 

 member of many learned societies, both in 

 Europe and in America, and in 1880 was vice- 

 president of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science, presiding over the 

 .section of anthropology. — Appleton's Cyclop, of 

 A')n. liiofi. 



Hall (Ixev. Alfred James). Tlie gospel | 

 according to | St. Matthew, Itnuislated 

 into the | Qa-gntl (or Quoqnols lan- 

 guage). I By the | rev. A. J. Hall, | C. 

 M. S. missionary at Fort Rupert, Van- 

 couver's island. | 



London : | printed for the British 

 and foreign hible society, | Queen Vic- 

 toria street. | 1882. 



Title verso "sounds of the letters " 1 1. text 

 entirely in the Qa-gutl language pp. 5-121. Ifi^. 

 See fac- simile of the title-page, p. 30. 



(JnpicK Keen: British and Foreign Kililc 

 Society, Eames, Pilling, Wellesley. 



[ ] The I gos])el according to | .Saint 



John. I Translated into the | Qa gfitl 

 language. | 



London: | printed for the British and 

 foreign bible .society, | Queen Victoria 

 street. | 1884. 



Title verso names of printers 1 1. text entirely 

 in the Qa gutl language pp. 5-101, 16"^. 



Cnjiiesseen: British and Foreign Bible Society, 

 British Museum, Eames, Pilling, Wellesley. 



Noticed, and an extract (St. John iv, 7-8) given 

 in the American Antiquarian, vol. 8, p. 187, 

 Chicago, 1886. 8°. 



A Grammar of the Kwagiutl Lan- 

 guage. By Rev. iilfred J. Hall, Alert 

 . Bay, British Columbia. 



In Royal Soc. of Canada Trans, vol. 0, .section 

 2, pp. 59-105, Montreal, 1888, 4°. 



Introductory, p. 59.— The Kwagiutl people, 

 with li.st of villages, pp. .59-60.— Phonology, pji. 

 60-J61. — Parts of sjieech (pp. 61-105) includes : 



Hall (A. J.)— Continued. 



Nouns, i)p. 61-Co; adjectives, i)p. 65-72; jiro- 

 nouns, pp. 72-7G; verb, pp. 77-101 ; adverb, i)p. 

 101-103; conjunction, jip. 103-104; interjection, 

 p. 105. 



Issued separately with title-page as follows: 



Section II, 1888. Trans. Royal Soc, 



Can. I A grammar | of the Kwagiutl 

 language, | by the | rev. Alfred J. Hall, 

 I from the | transactions of the Royal 

 society of Canada | volume VI, section 

 11,1888. I 



Montreal [ Dawson brothers, pub- 

 lishers I 1889. 



Cover title as above, title as above verso 

 blank 1 1. contents verso blank 1 1. text pp. 59- 

 105. 4^. 



Linguistic contents as under title next above. 



Copies seen : Eames, Geological Survey, Pill- 

 ing, "Wellesley. 



[ ] A I Kwagutl version of portions 



I of the I Book of common prayer. | 

 [SealoftheS. P. C. K.] | 



London : | Society for i)romoting 

 christian knowledge, | Northumber- 

 land avenue, Charing cross, "\V. C. 

 [1891,] 



Title verso blank 1 1. contents verso blank 1 

 1. text entirely in the Kwagutl language pp. 3- 

 62, colophon verso blank 1 1. 16°. 



Prayers, pp. 3-49. — Hymns, pp. ,50-62. — Isaiah 

 Hi, 7. 9, p. 62. 



Copies seen .- Eames, Pilling. 



Mr. Hall was born in 1853 in the village of 

 Thorpe, Surrey, England. In 1873 he was 

 accepted by the Church Missionary Society for 

 foreign work, and was sent to their college at 

 Islington for four years. In February, 1877, he 

 was ordained, and in June of the same year he 

 left England for Metlakatla, British Columbia, 

 arriving there August 6, 1877, where he labored 

 with Mr. William Duncan till Mart'h 8, 1878. 

 At that date this village contained 838 Tsira- 

 shian Indians, and the Sunday congregations 

 numbered 600 or 700 souls. "SA'hen Mr. Duncan 

 was absent Mr. Hall i(rea('hed through an 

 interpreter. He taught daily in a schoolof UO 

 children, more especially instructing them to 

 sing; and he al.so had a large evening sclioolof 

 young men. During his eiglit months' stay at 

 Metlakatla he accjuired a lair knowledge of 

 Tsimshian, and left it with much regret. In 

 March, 1878, Mr. Hall was ord(!rcd to Fort 

 Rupert, northeast of Vancouver Island, to 

 work among the Kwakiutls, who speaka totally 

 dirt'erent langiiage. He fi)und this tongue 

 more difficult to acciuire than the Tsimshian. 

 the variety of pronouns being very jmzzlin"-. 

 Here ho taught school for six months, and 

 afterward for two years inside the Hudson Bay 

 fort. There were difficulties in acquiringland 

 at Fort Rupert, and iu 1881 Mr. Hall removed 



