WAKASHAN LANGUAGES. 



47 



Pablo (Juan Engenio SantelizeH). [Vo- 

 cabularies of the Nutka language.] (") 



Manuscript, 11. 1-53, folio, in the library of 

 the British Museum (additional MS. 17631). 

 The following description hin been furnished 

 nie by Mr. R. Nisbet Bain of the above-named 

 lilirary : 



The vocabularies in the above volume were 

 compiled by Juan Eugenic Santelizes Pablo, 

 at the request of Don Josef de Espinoza, to 

 ■whom he addresses an introductory letter (f. 1), 

 dated Mexico, 16 March, 1791, in -which he 

 states there is no connection between the dia- 

 lects of the Sandwich Islands, Nutka, and 

 Mexico. 



The first five vocabularies are headed as 

 follows : 



1. Vocab. Castellano ■ Nntketio - Mexicano. 



Contains about 100 words, f. 4. 



2. Vocab. Castellano - KutkeSo - Sandwich - 



Mexicano. Contains about 80 words, f. 6. 



3. "Vocab. Castellano - Sandwich -Mexicano. 



Contains about 250 words, f. 8. 



4. Vocab. . . . de los Indias de Nootka. 



Contains about 350 words, f. 12. 



5. Vocab. del Idioma de los Naturales del 



Principe GuiUermo cituado . . . &c. 

 Contains about 80 words, f. 15. 

 Those described above are all copies of the 

 originals. 



6. Another copy of No. 4, the Spanish words 



being placed before the Nutka, f. 17. 



7. A copy of part of No. 5, f. 21. 



8. Vocab. Castellano - Nutka - Sandwich y 



Mexicano; apparently contains all the 



■words in Nos. 1 to 4 in alphabetic order, 



f.22. 

 9-14. [Vocabularies which do not relate to 



North America], ff. 30-53. 

 I am inclined to think the vocabularies of the 

 northwest coast are taken from Cook and King. 



Petitot (Pere fimile Fortuu6 Stauislas 

 Joseph). Monographie | des | Dene- 

 Dindji6 | pai" | le r. p. E. Petitot | Mis- 

 sionnaire-Oblat de Marie-Imiuacul6e, 

 Officier d'Acad^mie, | Membre corre- 

 epondant de rAcademic^ de Nancy, | de 

 la Society d'Aiithropologie | ot Membre 

 honoraire de la Soci6te de Philologie 

 et d'Etbnograpliie de Paris. | 



Paris I Ernest Leroux, ^diteur | 11- 

 bralre de la soci^te Asiatiqne de Paris, 

 I de r^cole des laugues orientales vi- 

 vantes etdes soci^t<»s Asiatiques de Cal- 

 cutta, I de New-Haven (fitats-Uuis),de 

 Shanghai (Chine) | 28, rue Bonaparte, 

 28 I 1876 



Cover title as above, half-title verso name of 

 printer 1 1. title as above verso blank 1 1. text 

 pp. 1-I09,li8t of publications 1 1. 8^. 



P. 



Petitot (fi. F. S. J. ) — Coutiniied. 



Verbal conjugations of the Yukulta (<o eat 

 and to drink), p. 104.— Vocabulary (8 words) of 

 the Yukulta, p. 105. Material furnished by 

 Pere Fouquet. 



Copies seen: Astor, Brinton, Earner, Pilling. 



De la formation du langage ; mots 



formes par le redoublement de raciues 

 het^rogenes, quoicjue de signification 

 synonyme, c'est-a-dire par r^lt(?ratiou 

 copulative. 



In Association francjaise pour I'avancemeiit 

 des sciences, comptereudu,12th session (Rouen, 

 1883), pp. 697-701, Paris, 1884,8"^. (Geological 

 Survey, Pilling.) 



Contains examples in a number of North 

 American languages , among tliera the Tokul tat. 



!fimil3 Fortune Stanislas Joseph Petitot was 

 born December 3, 1838, at (jrrancey-le-Ch4teau, 

 department of Cote-d'Or, Burgundy, France. 

 His studies were pursued at Marseilles, first at 

 the Institution St. Louis and later at the higher 

 seminary of Marseilles, which he entered in 1857. 

 He was made deacon at Grenoble, and priest at 

 Marseilles March 15, 186L. A few days t hereafter 

 he went to Englandand sailed for America. At 

 Montreal ho found MonseigneurTache, bi.shop 

 of St. Boniface, with whom he set out for the 

 Northwest, where he was continuously engaged 

 in missionary work among the Indiiins and 

 Eskimos luitil 1874, when he returned to France 

 to supervise tlie publication of some of his 

 works on linguistics and geography. In 1870 

 he returned to the missions and spent another 

 period of ne.Trly six years in the Northwest. 

 In 1882 he once more returned to his native 

 country, where he has since remained. In 1886 

 he was appointed to the curacy of Marenil 

 les Meaux, whicli he still retains. The many 

 years he spent in the inhospitable Northwest 

 were busy and eventful ones, and atforded an 

 opportunity for geographic, linguistic, and eth- 

 nologic observations and studies such as few 

 have enjoyed. He was the tirst missionary 

 to visit Great Bear Lake, which he did for the 

 first time in 1866. He went on foot from Good 

 Hope to Providence twice, and made many 

 tours in winter of forty or fifty days' length on 

 snowshoes. He was the first missionary to tlie 

 Eskimos of the Northwest, having visited them 

 in 1865, at the mouth of the Anderson, again in 

 1868 at the mouth of the Mackenzie, and in 1870 

 and again in 1877 at Fort McPhersou on Peel 

 River. In 1870 his travels extended into 

 Alaska. In 1878 illness caused him to return 

 south. He went on foot to Athabasca, whence 

 he passed to tlie Saskatchewan in a bark. In 

 1879 he established the mission of St. Raphael, 

 at Angling Lake, for the Cliippewyans of that 

 region ; there he remained until his final depart- 

 ure for France in January, 1882. 



Father Petitot has done much linguistic 



