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Bridges, Thomas — Continued 



(6) Extracts from Journal, and Let- 

 ters. (In The voice of pity for South 

 America [continued as A voice for South 

 America and The South American mis- 

 sionary magazine] intermittently from 

 about 1862 to 1898, almost monthly 

 from at least 1871 to 1886.) 



These extracts and letters are largely profes- 

 sional missionary reports, but many contain im- 

 portant data on Yahgan material culture, and are 

 invaluable for the study of Yahgan mentality, 

 character, and morality. Nearly all the anthro- 

 pological material contained in them is more 

 easily accessible in the author's other papers. 

 Some Yahgan words passim. 



(c) The natives of Tierra del Fuego. 

 (In Mission life, London, 1877, n. s. 

 VIII, pt. 1, 109-115; published origi- 

 nally in S. Ainer. miss, mag., Dec. 1, 

 1875, pp. 214-221.) 



Chiefly of value for the study of Yahgan char- 

 acter and morality. 



(d) The Yahgans of Tierra del Fuego. 

 (In Jour. Anthr. inst., London, 1885, 

 XIV, 288-289.) 



An extract from a letter to Prof. Flower dated 

 Ooshooia Aug. 24, 1884, giving descriptive soma- 

 tological notes on the Yahgans and the results of 

 a very careful census of the Yahgans made by 

 Mr. Bridges in June, 1884. 



(e) Das Feuerland und seine Bewoh- 

 ner. (In Globus, Braunschweig, 1885, 

 XLvii, no. 21, 331-333.) 



Cliiefly on Yahgan social, moral, and religious 

 culture, with very brief notes on the general cul- 

 ture and language of all three Fucgian tribes. 



(/) La Tierra del Fuego i sua habi- 

 tantes. (In El Ferrocaril, Santiago de 

 Chile, 1886.) (Keference from Anri- 

 que, p. 420.) 



Includes, according to Drs. Anrique (p. 420) 

 and Porter (p. 412), copious data on the life and 

 customs of the natives, together with vocabu- 

 laries. 



(g) Account of the Fuegians and their 

 country. (In Florcs parish magazine, 

 Buenos Aires, Sept., 1886, pp. 183-185.) 

 (Reference from Hyades.) 



(h) Elcontinsur de la Republica: La 

 Tierra del Fuego y sus habitantes. (lu 

 Bol. Inst, geogr. argent., Buenos Aires, 

 1886, VII, cuad. 9, pp. 200-212.) 



A succinct and excellent a<;count of Yahgan 

 culture in nearly all its phases, together with 

 some notes on Yahgan grammar. Some Yahgan 

 words passim. Tlie article also contains a few 



Bridges, Thomas^Cotitinued 



remarks on the Onas and an account of Fuegian 

 flora, fauna, etc. 



(i) Memoire inedit, 1886. MS. 



Apparently Mr. Bridges' most comprehensive 

 paper on the culture of the Yahgans, Alacahif, 

 and Onas. It is used and quoted extensively 

 by Dr. Hyades, g. 



(j) Datos sobre Tierra del Fuego. 

 (In Rev. Museo de La Plata, La Plata, 



1892, in, 19-32, 313-320.) 



These letters from Mr. Bridges, published In 

 English, contain some important data bearing 

 on the material culture of the Yahgans and 

 Alacaluf. 



{Ic) La Tierra del Fuego y sus habi- 

 tantes. (In Bol. Inst, geogr. argent., 



1893, XIV, cuad. 5-8, pp. 221-241.) 



A condensed, comprehensive account of many 

 phases of Yahgan psychical culture — one of the 

 author's most important papers. It Includes 

 some very short notes on Yahgan grammar and 

 passim many Yahgan words. On pp. 221-2.32 is 

 a description of Fuegian flora, fauna, climate, etc. 



{I) Dictionary of the Yahgan lan- 

 guage, 2 vols., completed July 5, 1879. 



MSS. 



By far the most important extant Yahgan 

 vocabulary, containing, according to a letter from 

 the compiler quoted in theS. Amer. miss, mag., 

 1912, XLVI, 77, 1,081 pages and about .32,430 words. 

 The MSS., brought back by the Belgica expedi- 

 tion, are now being prepared for publication by 

 Father Hestermann, S. V. D. For details, see 

 Denuc^, Hestermann, o, and Fm'long, p. "I was 

 informed," Prof. Furlong says (fc), "by Mr. Wil- 

 liam Bridges, a rancher of Tierra-del-Fuego, that 

 his father, the Rev. Thomas Bridges, incorpo- 

 rated between 500 and (KMJ words of Haush in his 

 'Anglo-Yahgan Dictionary and Grammar' under 

 the heading of ' Eastern Ona.' " 



{m) Gospl Looc Ecamanwaci: The 

 gospel of St. Luke translated into the 

 Yahgan language, London, 1881. 



This is the first text of any length ever pub- 

 lished in the Yahgan tongue. 



(n) Aposl'ndian Wushtwagu: The 

 Acts of the Apostles translated into the 

 Yahgan language, London, 1883. 



(o) Gospel Jon Ecamanwaci: The 

 gospel of St. John translated into the 

 Yahgan language, London, 1886. 



All three of the foregoing publications were 

 published anonymously. They were printed for 

 the British and Foreign Bible Society. Strangely 

 enough, the last two translations have been en- 

 tirely overlooked by almost all students of Fue- 

 gian linguistics. The Bureau of American Eth- 

 nology library at Washington possesses copies 

 of all three texts. 



