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Account of Father Rale's MS. Indian Dictionary. 



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I have thought it would not be uninteresting, and might be of some use, to give 

 in this place a short bibliographical account of the valuable Manuscript Dictionary 

 of the Mnaki language mentioned in p. 330 of the preceding paper. The author 



of it, Father 



( 



written both ways) was 



one of the Jesuit Missionaries, and came to New England in the year 1689. 



He 



Jfon 



calls J^anvantsomk J on the river Kennebecky upwards of thirty years, and was 

 killed in a battle between the Indians and English in 1724. A short but interest- 

 ing memoir of this able missionary was lately published by the He v. Thaddeus M. 

 Harris, D.D. in the Massachusetts Historical Collections, voL viii. Second Series, p, 

 250. In the same volume will be found copies of some of his letters, with other papers 

 respecting him, which I transcribed from Ihe originals deposited in the archives of 

 Massachusetts ; among them is a very spirited manifesto, in French, from various 

 tribes of Eastern Indians agaiust tlie Provincial Government of Massachusetts, 

 probablj written bj Bale himself. Other letters of his, and an account of his death, 

 will be found in that valuable work, well known artong the learned, under the 



Edijiantes et Curieuses (published in 



) 



contains Letters or Reports of the Jesuit Missionaries in various parts of the world ; 



See 



The MS. is a quarto volume and in the hand-writing of Edle himself. On the 

 first leaf is the following note : 



" 1691. II y a un an que je suis parrai les sauvages, je commence a mettre en 

 ordre en forme de dictionaire les mots que j'apprens.*' Immediately below this 



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