536 COMPARATIVE VOCABULARIES. 
6.—Santa Clara. 
Obtained by Rev. Father Gregory Mengarini. It is No. 308 of the Smith- 
sonian Collections. Concerning it, Mr. Gibbs says:—‘‘The accompany- 
‘ing vocabulary of the language of the Santa Clara Indians was very 
kindly procured and forwarded to me by the Rev. Father Gregory 
Mengarini, S. J., vice-president of the college at that place. It was 
obtained from an old chief, who represented it to be the only one 
spoken in that part of the country. Father Mengarini states that he 
was unable to revise it as he had wished, believing it not altogether 
correct, especially as regards the verbs. Indian languages, generally 
at least, having no infinitive, the first person present of the indicative 
was in each case asked for; but, there being no uniformity in the 
replies, some error was apprehended. The root of the verb is at any 
rate given. 
“The sound of a, e, 7, 0, are as in the French and Spanish, or as in the 
English far, step, fish, top; the double o as the French ow, or the Italian 
and Spanish w, or as in the English stood. As regards the consonants, 
chis pronounced as in English and Spanish; sh as in the English shall; 
but the 4, when not preceded by ¢ or s, is strongly aspirated. G is 
guttural, as the Spanish ge, gi, or ja, je. G at the end of a word sounds 
often like the German ich.” 
7.—Santa Cruz. 
This vocabulary was procured by Padre Juan Comelias on Monterey Bay, 
Santa Cruz County, California. It was published in Alex. 8. Taylor’s 
California Farmer, September, 1856, and reprinted in the New York 
Historical Magazine, February, 1864, Vol. VIII, p. 68. It is written in 
Spanish orthography, j representing hh: x. 
8.—Chum-te'-ya. 
Obtained by Mr. Albert S. Gatschet from Charles Manning, a Mi’-wok 
(Chumte’ya band), who was stopping in New York, March, 1877. 
His tribe were in Mariposa County, California. The Smithsonian 
alphabet was used 
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