202 NORTH AMERICAN LINGUISTICS. 
Dobbs (Arthur) — continued. 
The whole intended to shew the great Probability of a North- 
west I Passage, so long desired ; and which (if discovered) would be 
of the I highest Advantage to these Kingdoms. | By Arthur Dobbs, 
Esq; I 
London : | Printed for J. Eobinson, at the Golden Lion in Ludgate- 
Street. | M DOC XLIV [1744]. | BA. 
Pp. i-ii, 1-211, with mai:). 4°. 
Thompson (Edwavd). A short vocabulary spoke amongst the Indians inhab- 
iting the N. W. part of Hudson's Bay, pp. 206-211. 
Vocabulary of Euglish and Esliimo words, pp. 203-205. 
1046 Doctrina. [Docti'ina Christiana, Arte, etc., in Cakchiquel.] * 
Manuscript. 109 11. sm. 4°. In library of the Philosophical Society, Philadel- 
phia. 
Title taken from Dr. D. G. Brinton's article in the American Journal of Science 
and Arts, vol. xlvii, pp. 222-230, where he describes it as follows: 
Unfortunately the first leaf, with the general title, is missing. The top of the 
second leaf commeuces in the midst of a sentence in a Doctrina Christiana in 
Cakchiquel. This covers ten leaves, and is followed by two leaves of "Preguntas 
de la Doctrina," all in Cakchiquel. Next comes a " Confessionario breve en len- 
gua Cakchiquel." The Spanish translation of each question and answer is also 
given. After the Confessionario a-re three leaves, unnumbered and blank, except 
that on the recto of the second is a Latin praj'er to the Virgin, difficult to de- 
cipher. On the recto of the next leaf is the following: 
Arte I de la lengua cak | chiquel. 
It is written in a clear, small hand, covers fifty-four pages, with 30 lines, on an 
average, to the page, sometimes with one column, sometimes with two, and closes 
with this colophon — 
Martes a 24 de Junio de 1692 anos dia del Nacimiento de S. Juan Baptista se 
acavo el traslado de oragiones y Arte en Kakehiquel. 
From the close of this to the 96th leaf there is another series of doctrinal ques- 
tions headed — 
Vae i'utubal iihabal ti | iiut nbex richin Christianos | cakchiquel JTliabal 
ri I chin cakchiquel viuak. 
(I designate the peculiar modilication of the consonants by italics.) 
Another "Confessionario breve en lengua eastellaua y cakchiquel" then fol- 
lows, twelve pages in length, diflferiug considerably from the previous one. The 
rest of the volume is taken up with "Platicas," short discourses on religious sub' 
jeots. One of them is an incident from the life of Saiut Vincent Ferrer, related 
for the purpose of " terrifying the natives, and dispelling the shame they usual ly 
, have about confessing." There is an index to the book, and on the verso of the 
last leaf this note in regard to the binding, "Este quaderuo es de Fr. Albc rto Mi- 
guez"; said "quaderno" being in dark calf, without boards, aud with strings. 
The characters of Parra are employed in all the divisions of the work, aud the 
writing is mostly quite legible. 
There is no hint throughout where this work was written, nor by whom. The 
colophon above quoted seems to shoAV that it is the original, at least of the Arte 
and the pi'ayers. From the mention of Saint A^'incent Ferrer, a Dominicau, aud 
fr. m the known rivalry of the two orders at that time in Central America, I am 
inclined to attribute.it to a Dominican rather than a Franciscan. None of the 
bibliograYihical authorities already quoted mention any writer of cither order 
who prepared works of this kind in Cakchiquel at or very near 1692. The manu- 
script proceedings of the Philosophical Society for Sept., 1836, when the books 
were received throw no light on the matter. 
