MALLERY. ] MICMAC LORD’S PRAYER. 669 
Fig. 1083 shows the version of the Lord’s Prayer, published by Dr. 
J. G, Shea (qa) in his translation of Le Clereq’s First Establishment of 
the Faith in New France, this and the preceding figure being taken 
from the Bibliography of the Languages of the N. A. Indians by Mr. 
A.C. Pilling, of the Bureau of Ethnology. 
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mnshinen  Wajok ebin tchiptook delwigin 
Our Father in heaven ecated may thy name 
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meguidedemek Wajok (n’tclidanen tchiptook ignemwiek ula 
berespected in heaven tous — may grant thee 
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nemulek uledechinen. Natel wajok deli chkedoollc 
to see in staying. There in heayen as thou art obeyed 
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tchiptook deli chkedulek makimignek eimek 
may 60 be obeyed on earth where we are 
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Delamukubeniguu echemicenel apch neguech kichkook 
‘As thou hast givenittous inthe same manner also now to-day 
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delamooktech penegunnenwin — niliuen; deli abikchiktakachik 
givo it ournourishment tous; we forgive thnso 
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weeniwinametnik elp kel nixkam abikehiktwin clweultick 
who have offenled us so thou O God forgive our faults 
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melkeninrech winnchudil mu k'tygalinen keginukamkel 
hold us strong by tho band not to fall keep far from us 
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wWinnchiguel twaktwin. Nidelictch, 
sufferings evils. Amen. 
Fria. 1083,—The Lord’s Prayer in Micmac hieroglyphics. 
The publication of Father Kauder was a duodecimo in three parts: 
Catechism, 144 pages; religious reflections, 109 pages; and hymnal, 
208 pages. They are very seldom found bound together, and a perfect 
copy of either of the parts or volumes is rare. On a careful examina- 
tion of the hieroglyphs, so called, it seems evident that on the original 
substratum of Micmac designs or symbols, each of which represented 
mnemonically a whole sentence or verse, a large number of arbitrary 
