ATHAPASCAN LANGUA(!P:S. 



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Kirkby (W. W.) — (^''»'itinii<'<l- 



wards lie rntcrod iiimiii liis diitiis. On tliii 24tli 

 of I)c(<'iiiI)or, 1854, Mr. Kirkby wan onlainid to 

 the niiiii.sfrv l>y tli<i Ki^lit Kovcrcnd Pavid 

 Aiidcrsciii, 1). 1)., the first l.isliop of Kiiix-rt's 

 Land, and at on<e took toinporary chart;*' "'' ^l- 

 Andrew's ehiurh and jiarish. 



In 1852 Mr. Kirkl>y was ajiiiointcd to the 

 mission of Red River, nrrivin>; tliero in the 

 autemn of that year. His dnties wero to take, 

 charfje of a model training .sehool and to su- 

 perintend the work of education in the colony, 

 in those parishes belonginj; to the church 

 missionary society. Sliortly afterwards Mr. 

 Kirkby, in addition to hi.s other duties, was 

 appointed assistant minister of St. Andrews, 

 then the largest parish in the settlement, ami 

 continued there fo\ir years. In the nmaiiwhile 

 the church had spread northwards and west- 

 wards to P^iirford, Cumberland, La(' la Rouge, 

 and the English River, 700 miles from Red 

 River, and then at a single bound it went into 

 the great McKenzio Valley. Archdeacon Hun- 

 ter went thither on an exploratory tour in 1858, 

 and the. next year the bishop ai)i)ointed Mr. 

 Kirkby to take charge of the work. He at onc(^ 

 proceeded there, and made Fort Simpson his 

 headquarters. This fort stands in latitude <i2 ' 

 N., longitiule 121° W., at the confluence of the 

 Liard and Sliive rivers. He began his work 

 with much encouragement and hope. The first 

 care was the language, and then the erection of 

 suitable buildings for church and scluxd pur- 

 poses. These latter were soon supplied by the 

 kindness ami liberality of the Hudson Bay 

 Company's officers, who took an interest in the 

 work. In the summer of 18(!2 Mr. Kirkby 

 re.solved to carry the gospel within the Arctic 

 Circle, and if possible into Alaska. Securing 

 a good canoe and two reliable Indians he .set off, 

 following the ice down the McKen/.ie to Peel 

 River Fort, the last trading post of the com- 

 pany and a great rendezvous of the Indians. 

 After a short stay here he left his canoe and, 

 accom])anied by two guides, set out to walk 

 over the mountains. Up and down they went, 

 over several ridges rising from 700 to 2,800 feet, 

 and at last, by a sudden descent of 1,000 feet 

 into the valley, he reached La Pierre's hou.se 

 and another of the Fur Company's forts. Here 

 Mr. Kirkby remained until theltoth of June, in- 

 structing the Indians and learning theTukndh 

 language, a kindred one to the Tinne. He then 

 embarked in the company's boat on the Rat 

 River, and then down the Porcupine River, a 

 tributary of the Yukon. Two miles above the 

 confluence of these Fort Yukon stands. This 

 journey occupied three months, and at the close 

 of it Mr. Kirkby writes ; " I have traveled over 

 at least 3,000 miles; have been honored of (lod 

 to carry the gospel far within the Arctic Circle 

 and to a people who had never heard it before." 

 The work at the Yukon was then given to the 

 Rev. R. Milkmaid and Mr. Kirkby devoti-d his 

 time at Fort Simpson to the language. He trans- 

 lated two of the gospels and completed a little 



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Kirkby ( W. W.) — CoiitiniKMl. 



numual containing i)r.ayers, hymns, catechi.sm. 

 and sliort bible lessons, such as the Indians 

 could readily understand. He also collected 

 materials for a giammar and vocabulary for the 

 use of others. The ac<iuisition of the language 

 was thus rendered easier for future mission- 

 aries who might enter the field. In IKC.t) Mr. 

 Kirkby, having been seventeen years in the 

 ti<'ld, went to Knglaiid to place his children at 

 •school. I'pon his return to the country, in 

 1870, he was ap]ioiiited to York Faitory, Hud- 

 son Ray, that he might meet the Cbiju'wyans 

 of f'hurcliill. Here he laborol for nine years, 

 and then retired from tlie mission to make a 

 home for his children iivt he civilized world ; and 

 this he has done, being now stationed at the 

 village of Rye, near Ni^w Vork. 

 Klatskenai. See Tlatskenai. 

 Koltschane : 



Tribal names See Latham (R. G.) 



Vocabulary Raer (K. E. von). 



Vocabulary Bancroft (H. H.) 



Vocabulary Buschmann (J. C. E.) 



Vocabulary Latham (R. G.) 



Kovar {Dr. Emil). Uclx-r tlie Bedftituuo; 

 (lea posscssivischeii rroiiomeii fiir die 

 Ausdnick,swei.se dcs siil»Ktantivi,schpn 

 .attributes. 



In Zeitschrift fiir Volkerpsychologie und 

 Sprachwissensehaft. vol. 16, \<j>. ;!86-:{94, Berlin, 

 1886. (*) 



Examples in a number of American lan- 

 guages, among them the Athapascan, p. 'i90. 



Title from Prof. A. F. Chamberlain, froracopy 

 in the library of Toronto L^^niversity. 



Krusenstern (Adam Jobaiin voa). Wor- 

 ter-Sammlungen | aiis deu Spraclieu 

 I einiger Volker | des | o.stlieheii 

 Asiens | tmd | der Nordwest-Kiiste vou 

 Aiuerika. | Bekannt gcinacht | von | A. 

 ,T. V. Kruseusteru | Capitaiii der Rii.s- 

 si.scli kaiserlicbeu Mariue. | 



St Petersburg. | Gedruekt in der 

 Druckerey der Admiralitiit | 1813. 



Title verso note 1 I. Vorbericht pp. i-xi, half 

 title verso blank 1 I. text pp. 1-68, Druckfebler 

 verso blank I I. 4°. 



Wortersararaluug aus der Sprache der Kinai 

 (from Dawidoff, ResanotI', and Lisiansky), pp. 

 57-68. 



Copies neen : Astor, Bancroft, Brinton, )?rit- 

 ish Museum, Eames, Pilling. Trumbull, "Wat 

 kiuson, Wellesley. 

 Kutchin. Vocabulary of the Hong Kut- 

 chiu lauguage. 



Manuscript, 4 unnumliered leav(\s, folio, 

 written on one side only ; in the lit>rary of the 

 Bureau of Ethnology. 



Contains about 130 wonls, entered on one of 

 the .Smithsonian fonns of the standard vocabu- 

 lary. 



