ALGONQUIAN LANGUAGES. 



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Dencke (C.F.) — Continued, 

 panna ] Jobaunessa | elekhangup. | 

 Giscliitak elleniechsink, | untschi C. F. 

 Deucke. | 



New-York : | printed for the Ameri- 

 can bible society. | D. Fausbaw, 

 Printer. | 1818. 



Second title : The | three epistles | of the | 

 apostle John. | Translated into Delaware In- 

 dian, I by C. F. Dencke. | 



New- York : | printed for the American bible 

 society. | D. Fanshaw, Printer. | 1818. 



Delaware title verso 1. 1 (p. 1), English title 

 recto 1. 2 (p. 1), text pp. 2-21, 2-21, double num- 

 bers, alternate Delaware and English, 18°. 



Copies seen: Congress, Dunbar, Eames, 

 Pilling, Powell, Trumbull, Wisconsin Historic- 

 al Society. 



Priced by Triibner & co. 1856 catalogue, no. 

 660, l6. ; at the Fischer sale, catalogue no. 2298, 

 a copy brought 3s. ; at the Field sale, catalogue 

 no. 512, $2. Priced by Led ere, 1878, no. 2525, 

 40 fr. ; at the Brinley sale, catalogue no. 5704, Ave 

 copies brought $1.50 ; at the Murphy sale, cata- 

 logue no. 2953, it brought $1. Priced by Clarke 

 & CO. 1886 catalogue, no. 6739, $1 ; and by Mai- 

 son neuve, in 1889, 50 fr. 



Extracts from this work will be found in 

 Home (T. H.), Manual of bibliography; also in 

 Eupp ( 5. D.), History of the counties of Berks 

 and Lebanon. 



In mentioning' the above work, Bagster's 

 Bible in every land adds: "He afterwards 

 furnished a version of the gospels of St. John 

 and St. Matthew, and an edition of these por- 

 tions, printed in parallel columns, with English 

 version, was published by that society.'' 



L J Eluwiwulikil Elekhasigil | enda 



lekhasik | Lamoeniimtscbi elekil, | eki 

 gisobelendasike Pemhakamigek, nane 

 undach li abauboqui | elekil teek pe- 

 tscbi Patamauet Meniecbink nek Is- 

 raelitscbik, enda | pacbtit pemaraeek 

 kikbigan elewundasik wundamawacb- 

 towoagauii ] baki Canaan, nane sbaki 

 wdelekbamenep nega Moscbiscba. | 

 petscbi enda allalebellecbet. | [One 

 line Scripture quotation.] | Netamie- 

 cbink Mamalekbikau. | I. 



Manuscript; title verso scripture verses 1 1. 

 preface signed "Kimachitowa Denke Scheyja- 

 nuppeque Ontario enda petschimuijank enda 

 luwanamizank Anikii gischooch (Jany.) 20, 

 1814" 1 1. 1 blank 1. text pp. 1-387, contents 3 11. 

 verso of the third blank, sm. 4°. Entirely in 

 the Delaware language; nicely written, well 

 preserved; bound. Scripture narratives in the 

 Delaware language. It belongs to the Moravian 

 Mission, Fairfield, Canada, and was loaned to 

 Mr. J. W. Jordan of the Pennsylvania Hist. 

 Soc. who kindly allowed me to inspect it. 



Dencke (C.F.) — Continued. 



[Dictionary of tbe Delaware lan- 

 guage.] (*) 



Manuscript, oblong octavo, comprising about 

 3700 words, in the Moravian archives at Beth- 

 lehem, Pa. Mr. John W. Jordan, of the Penn. 

 Hist. Soc. Philadelphia, some time since called 

 my attention to this manuscript. He informs 

 me that the handwriting of the manuscript is 

 the Rev. L. F. Kampman's, but that that gen- 

 tleman said he did not prepare it, but must have 

 made the copy from the original manuscript 

 when a missionary to the Indians at Fairfield, 

 Canada, and that it was probably prepared by 

 Dencke or Luckenbach. This is since con- 

 firmed by Dr. Brinton in the following note in 

 his work entitled "The Len^p^ and their 

 legends," p. 84: 



"After the war of 1812, the Moravian brother, 

 Kev. C. F. Dencke, who ten years before had at- 

 tempted to teach the G-ospel to the Chipeways, 

 gathered together the scattered converts among 

 the Delawares at New Fairfield, Canada West. 

 In 1818 he completed and forwarded to the 

 Publication Board of the American Bible So- 

 ciety a translation of the Epistles of John, which 

 was published the same year. 



" He also stated to the Board that at that time 

 (1818) he had finished a translation of John's 

 Gospel and commenced that of Matthew, both of 

 which he expected to send to the Board in that 

 year. A donation of one hundred dollars was 

 made to him to encourage him in his work, but 

 for some reason the prosecution of his work 

 was suspended and the translation of the Gos- 

 pels never appeared (contrary to the statements 

 in some bibliographies). 



"It is probable that Mr. Dencke was the 

 compiler of the Delaware Dictionary which is 

 preserved in the Moravian Archives at Beth- 

 lehem. The MS. is an oblong octavo, in a fine 

 but beautifully clear hand, and comprises about 

 3700 words. The handwriting is that of the late 

 Rev. Mr. Kampman, from 1840 to 1842 mission- 

 ary to the Delawares on the Canada Reserva- 

 tion. On inquiring the circumstances connected 

 with this MS., he stated to me that it was writ- 

 ten at tbe period named and was a copy ot some 

 older work, probably by Mr. Dencke, butof thi.s 

 he was not certain. 



"While the greater part of this dictionary is 

 identical in words and rendering with the sec- 

 ond edition of Zeisberger's 'Spelling Book' 

 (with which I have carefully compared it), it 

 also includes a number of other words, and the 

 whole is arranged in accurate alphabetical or- 

 der. 



"Mr. Dencke also prepared a grammar of 

 the Delaware, as I am informed by his old per- 

 sonal friend, Rev. F. R. Holland, of Hope, In- 

 diana; but the most persistent inquiry through 

 residents at Salem, N". C, where he died in 1839, 

 and at the Missionary Archives at Bethleliem, 

 Pa., and Moraviautown, Canada, have failed 

 to furnish me a clue to its whereabouts. I fear 



