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constantly indebted in many ways, was obtained in Creek 

 and English, and also in the foim of a dictaphone record, a 

 speech of the kind formerly delivered at the annual poskita, 

 or busk, ceremony of the Creeks. From an Alibamu corre- 

 spondent, referred to in previous reports, some additions to 

 the Alibamu vocabulary and a few pages of Alibamu text 

 were procured. 



At the beginning of the fiscal year Mr. J. N. B. Hewitt, 

 ethnologist, transcribed and edited the Seneca text "Dooa'- 

 dane'ge"' and Hotkwisdadege'°'a," making 45 pages, to which 

 he added a literal interlinear translation that required more 

 than twice as many English words as Indian, the whole being 

 equivalent to about 130 pages. This text is a part of the 

 Seneca material now in press for the Thirty-second Annual 

 Report of the bureau. Mr. Hewitt also read for correction, 

 emendation, and expansion, the galley proofs of Curtin's 

 Seneca material, and prepared more than 50 pages of notes 

 and additions for the introduction and also for the text ; he 

 also has ready notes and corrections for the proofs still to 

 come. From unedited text Mr. Hewitt completed a free 

 translation of 32 pages of the Onondaga version of the 

 "requickening address" of the Ritual of Condolence of the 

 League of the Iroquois, being a part of the material for his 

 projected memoir on the Iroquois League. 



After the material of the Seneca legends had been sub- 

 mitted for printing, Mr. Curtin's field records and notes, made 

 •while recording this material, came into possession of the 

 bureau. Mr. Hewitt devoted much time to reading and ex- 

 amining this undigested material, some 4,000 pages, for the 

 purpose of ascertaining whether part of it should be utilized 

 for printing or for illustrative purposes in what was already 

 in type. This examination yielded some good material for 

 notes and interpretations, but only small return as to new 

 material for printing. 



In the early autumn Mr. Hewitt made special preparations 

 for the prosecution of field work on his projected memoir on 

 the League of the Iroquois, by tentative editing and copying 

 of a number of Mohawk and Onondaga texts recorded hastily 

 in the field in previous years. The following parts of the 



