1052 NORTH AMERICAN" LINGUISTICS. 
Rand {Rev. Silas Tertius) — contiuued. 
can be conjugated through person and number, mood and tense, and voice. 
4. To write the trord iihonetically, so that the true pronunciation — the real 
■word — may be distinctly seen and heard. 5. To give the compounds to some 
extent, the most usual ones, and the derivatives, for these are an essential part 
of the language. 
"I have, in the course of about thirty-five years, collected and arranged 
alphabetically some thousands of words. I am this winter [1883-4] making it 
my chief business to complete the correcting and the copying out into a fair 
hand of the fourth volume of this work. I have already copied and bound up 
three volumes, quarto, each of about five hundred leaves, many of the pages on 
both sides being pretty well filled, so much so, in fact, that I am continually 
under the necessity of pasting in additional pages, in order to place in proper 
order new words as they turn up. Of the twenty letters of the Roman alphabet 
used in printing Micmac, I have in my Dictionary, in the three volumes referred 
to, arrived at S. The last word entered in Vol. 3 is Silmoodawa. Volume IV 
commences with Sinkumisum: umun: imfijiil. After S there are but /oiw let- 
ters of the alphabet left, viz : T, U, W, Y, but my collection of words, under these 
four letters, occupies about 450 pages of manuscript, many of them crowded to 
vexation, though some are not filled. * * 
"You ask the names of my assistants. I have had a great many. I had at 
the commencement hardly anything printed or written that could assist me. 
The meagre outlines of a Micmac Grammar, published some years previous in 
the Royal Gazette of Charlottetown, P. E. Island, by a Mr. Irving [see Nos. 
1949a-19496], who had obtained the manuscripts of a French priest, who had 
resided in Nova Scotia, L'Abbe Segogne, then dead, gave me some — I may say a 
good deal — of heli). Irving died before I could see him, and I could not obtain 
any of his manuscripts. 
II* » * rpj^g £j,g^ jj^g^j^ J found who could really help me was a Frenchman 
named Joseph Brooks, who had resided among the Indians many years and lived 
as one of themselves. But he spoke good English, nnd was also fluent in French 
and Micmac. He could read but could not write, but his assistance was invalu- 
able. I could not depend upon his pronunciation, as I soon discovered, for he 
learned the language after he was grown up, and spoke it with a foreign accent. 
But his wife spoke it pure, and I could depend on him for the meaning of a word 
and on her for the pronunciation. * » « Oneof the sons, Tom Brooks, became 
finally one of my most efficient teachers, though he never learned either to read 
or write. The greater part of my translations and compilations was done with 
the assistance of Tom Brooks. I had one other clever assistant for several years 
who could both read and write. His name was Benjamin Christmas, of Cape 
Breton." 
Of the above manuscript I have seen only vol. 3, which, with many other of 
his manuscripts given below, were kindly sent me by the author that I might 
describe them. 
3185 b Micmac Ollendorff. * 
Manuscript. In the possession of a Mr. Hubbard, of Bonn, Germany, to whom 
it was sent by the author. " The Micmac Ollendorff comprises, as near as I can 
remember, about 400 pages, and consists of a series of questions and answers, 
facing each other, and numbered off into lessons, a la mode Ollendorff. It is 
intended as a simple aid to the learning of the language." — Sand. 
3185 c Micmac Catechism. I str. 
Manuscript. 38 pp. 16°. Written in a small blank book labeled "Translations 
from Indian Prayer-book— Micmac. S. T. Eaud, Charlottetown." Each ques- 
