178 NORTH AMERICAN LINGUISTICS. 
907 Goto (Pe. F. Thomas). Vocabulario | De la Lengua cakcMquel, v, 
Guatimalteca | Nueuameiite hecho y recopilado con summo estu- 
dio I trauajo y erudicion por el P." F. Thomas Goto, Pre | dicador y 
Padre.de esta Prouj." de el S. S.™" Nobre | de Jesus de Guatimala. 
En que se contieuen | todos los modos y frases elegantes conque 
los I Naturales la hablan y d. q. se puedeu valer | los Ministros estu- 
diossos para sn mejor | educacion y eusenanza. • 
Manuscript, 476 11. folio, iu the library of the American Philosophical Society, 
Philadelphia. 
Title taken from Dr. D. G. Brinton's article in the American Journal Science 
and Arts, v. 7, pp. 222-230, where he describes it as follows: 
This dictionary is a splendid testimonial to the zeal and scholarship of the 
Franciscan missionaries. The pages are large, with double columns, 37 lines to 
a page, written quite distinctly, though here and there the ink has faded so that 
it is ditiScult to read. The first 15 pages are handsomely written in imitation of 
printed letters. The characters of Parra are adopted for the five peculiar sounds. 
Unfortunately, the copy is incomplete, ending with the word vendible. As it is 
exclusively Spanish and Cakchiquel, it complements the Cakchiquel and Spanish 
Calepino of Varea. 
It should be observed that the letter C is wrongly bound so that the latter part 
of it comes first, and several other letters do not seem to have been finished. 
This copy appears fo date from early in the last century, and is unique so far as I 
know. Coto was a native of Guatemala and lived in the latter part of the 17th 
century. Mr. Squier gives nuder his name only one title "Thesaurus Verborum ; 
6 Frases y Elegancias de la Lengua de Guatemala ; " which, probably, is the same 
work as the above. It is peculiarly valuable, uot only for the liuguistic material 
it contains, but for the light it throws on numerous customs of the natives, on the 
botany and zoology of the country, and for its quotations of manuscript works iu 
Cakchiquel. Coto's principal authorities are Father Francisco Maldonado's ser- 
mons in that tongue, those of Father Antonio Saz (de san Joachim, de la visita- 
cion, de la asunoiou, de la coucepcion, manual en la leugua, and others, none of 
them mentioned by Mr. Squier or Pimentel), Father Domingo Vice, bishop of 
Chiapas, and the "calepino" of Varea. 
908 Thesaurus Yerborum: 6 Frases y elegancias de la Xiengua 
de Gaatemala. * 
Manuscript in the library of the principal convent. — Beristain. 
909 Cotton (Josiah). Vocabulary of the Massachusetts (or Natick) 
ludiau Language. By Josiah Cotton. [Edited by John Pickering.] 
In Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., third series, vol. 2, pp. 147-2.57. Cambridge, 
1830. 8°. 
" Advertisement " (which includes " Notice of the Mauuscript ; with remarks on 
the Author's Orthography and the Pronunciation of the Language", signed J. P.), 
pp. 147-149 ; Vocabulary, 155-243; Appendix, 244-257. 
The words of the vocabulary are grouped or classified, having such headings 
as "Of Arts," "Of Beasts," "Of Rational Creatures," &c. ; "Adjectives,' 
"Verbs," "Imperative Mood," "Participles," "The Creed," "A talk between 
two," "Adverbs," "Pronouns," "Sentences," and "A Dialogue"; it also contains 
a letter, the Natick version being signed Jno. Nemumiu. 
The Appendix contains "Examples from the Indian Primer" (Eliot's), words 
of from one to fifteen syll.ibles; two versions of the Lord's Prayer from Eliot's 
Bible, and two from the Indian Primer; the Ten Commandments, from the 
Primer; "A Sermon preached by Josiah Cotton to the Massachusetts Indians in 
