1038 NORTH AMERICAN LINGUISTICS. 
Fasion — continued. 
others repeat, clianl ing- the words to a monotonous air. The texts of theSL- his- 
tories differ considerably. Dr. Berendt has collected three of them in this vol- 
ume, for the sake of comparison." — Brinton. 
2918 Z) La Pasion | en leugua (Jhapaneca. | Canciones de los 
Indios I de Suchiapa. | Tuxtla Gutierrez, 1870. | dgb. 
Maunscript. Title, verso blank, 1 1. ; Advertencia, 1 1. ; half title, verso blank, 
1 1. ; text, pp. 1-93. 4°. "The Indians of Suchiapa have among them three frater- 
nities (cofradias) devoted to the adoration respectivi ly of Jesns of Nazareth, the 
Holy Cross, and the Virgin of the Rosary. Each of these has a volume of Rules 
' Ordenauzas,' in the Chiapanec tongue, containing portions of the Passion, which 
they are accustomed to sing in the church during Holy Week. The above vol- 
ume contains copies of these Ordenanzas. They bear the dates 1723, 1780, and 
1781."— B)-t«to». 
2918 c La Pasion. | Fragmento en leugua | Zoque. | dgb. 
Original manuscript of the early part of this century. Title (modern) 1 1., 
411. 
2918 d P[aso y] T[roiicoso] (Francisco del). Estudios sobrela historiade 
la uiediciua en Mexico. 
In Museo Nacional de Mexico, Anales, tomo 3, pp. 137- . Mexico, 1883. 4°. 
Many Mexican plant-names ^asffim. 
Patterson (J. B.), editor. See Black Hawk, Nos. 391, 391 «, and 
391 6. 
[Paul's Epistles * * in Santee.] See [Cook (Joseph Winfleld)], 
No. 867. 
2925 a Pearse ( — ). [Hymn in tbe Seneca language.] be. 
'■ I have sent you a tune, and herewith I send you a pen copy of the hymn to 
which the tune was composed and fitted by a Seneca Indian, State of New York, 
named Pearse, I think. It is a translation of Newton's beautiful hymn com- 
mencing, 'Savior, visit thy plantation'."— 7?ej>. Silas T. Band. 
2929 a Peirson (Abraham). Some | Helps | for the | Indians j shewing 
tbem I How to improve their natural Eeason, To know | the True 
God, aud the true Christian Eeligion. | 1. By leading them to see 
the Divine Authority of the | Scriptures. | 2. By the Scriptures the 
Diviue Truths necessary to | Eternall Salvation. | Undertaken | At 
the Motion, and published by the Order of the Commis- | sioners of 
the United Colonies. | by Abraham Peireon. | Examined and ap- 
proved by Thomas Stanton Interpre- | ter-Generall to the United 
Colonies for the Indian | Language, and by some others of the 
most able | Interpreters amongst us. j — j 
London, | Printed by M. Simmons, 1659. | L. 
In [Eliot (John)]. A further Accompt of the Progresse of the Gospel, pp. 
[22]-35. London, 1659. 4°. 
This is a reprint of the first sheet only of Peirson's Catechism, No. 2929. The 
portion reprinted has a separate title-page (p. 22), on which the imprint "Lon- 
don : Printed by M. Simmons, 1659," is substituted for Green's, and ends in the 
middle of a sentence (p. 35_), and has the catch-word of the following sheet, 
which was not yet received in England. 
