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BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE 



Eliot (J.) — Coutinued. 



teach, tliem tlie Art of Teaching, and I find 

 some of thetn very capable. And while I live, 

 my purpose is {by the Grace of Christ assist- 

 ing) to make it one of my chief cares and labours 

 to teach them some of the Liberal Arts and 

 Sciences, and the way bow to analize, and lay 

 out into particulars both the "Works and "Word 

 of God ; and how to communicate knowledge 

 to others methodically and skillfully, and es- 

 pecially the method of Divinity." He also 

 wrote to the Hon. Robert Boyle, in a letter dated 

 September 30th, 1670: "Touching the present 

 state of this work with the Indians . . . your 

 honour will see, that I have undertaken and be- 

 gun a kind of academical reading unto them, 

 in their own language, thereby to teach the 

 teachers and rulers, and all that are desirous 

 of learning." Concerning this undertaking 

 Dr. Francis remarks: "We cannot suppose 

 that he purposed, or expected, to indoctrinate 

 the natives in the technical form 3 or subtile dis- 

 tinctions of the logic of the schools. The ob- 

 ject of his lectures was to accustom them, in 

 some degree, to clear and methodical habits of 

 thought, that they might arrange and express 

 their ideas on religio:is subjects with propriety. 

 These instructions seem to have been designed 

 chiefly for such as were to be trained to the 

 ofi&ce of teaching and expounding. In aid of 

 this design, Eliot published, in 1672, an Indian 

 Logick Primer, which was printed by Johnson 

 at Cambridge. Natick became a kind of semi- 

 nary, from which teachers went forth among 

 their brethren at the other stations." 



At a meeting of the Commissioners, held in 

 l^Tew Plymouth, September 6th, 1672, it was re- 

 solved, that "Mr. Hezekiah Vsher is ordered 

 to pay out of the Indian Stocke in his custody 

 ... To Marmeduke Johnson for printing stich- 

 ing and cuting of a thousand Indian Logick 

 Primers," 6^. 



The following introductory remarks are pre- 

 flxed to the book: "These few short Logicall 

 Notions are onely for a Thrid, to lead my Read- 

 ings to them, and to guide them to follow me 

 through the principal and most usefuU Princi- 

 ples, whereby they may be in some measure 

 enabled to understand, open, and improve the 

 plain things of the Kingdome of Christ Jesus 

 Tevealed in the Scriptures. And touching these 

 K^otes, I may say as the Eunuch said to Philip, 

 Acts 8. 31. How can I understand them, unless 

 some man should guide me? Lord Jesus help 

 me to help them, that they may come to the 

 knowledge of thy Truth ! What I have done 

 is weak. To form Words of Art, is a work that 

 xequireth time and judgement. I have ad- 

 ventured to break the ice; Lord raise more 

 able Workmen to follow, and to mend both the 

 Foundation and Building." 



Dr. Trumbull gives a brief title of this little 

 primer in his list of " Books and tracts in the 

 Indian language or designed for the use of the 

 Indians," but he had not seen it and evidently 

 was not aware of its being in the Indian Ian- 



Eliot (J.) — Continued. 



guage, as he classes it with the Indian Dia- 

 logues of 1671, which is entirely in English. 

 For the clue to its Indian contents we are in- 

 debted to Mr. H. E. Tedder's article on Eliot 

 in the Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 

 17 (London, 1889), p. 194, where it is described 

 for the first time as "in Indian, with interlinear 

 translation." The authorities of the British 

 Museum kindly permitted the whole book to 

 be photographed (full size), and from these 

 negatives, now in the possession of the com- 

 piler of this bibliography, a half-dozen photo- 

 graphic copies have been made. (Fames, Dr. 

 George H. Moore, Pilling, Powell.) 



The only copy we have been able to trace is 

 in the British Museum, press-mark 526. a. 40. 

 According to Dr. Trumbull a copy was also in 

 the Bodleian, but the librarian, Dr. E. B. Nich- 

 olson, writes (December 5th, 1889,) that no 

 copy of the book is in that library. 



and Rawson (G.) Sampwutteahae 



I qiiinnuppekompaaaenin. I Wallu^Y^- 

 mook oggnssemesuoi^ Sampwutteahdie | 

 Wunnamptamwaenuog, | Maclie wus- 

 sukhumun ut Englisli-Mane Uunontoo- 

 waonk nashpe | Ne mutt^e-wuunegenue 

 Wuttinneuraoh. Christ | Noh asoowesit 

 I Thomas Shephard | Qiiinnuppenti- 

 mun en Indiane Unnontcowaonganit 

 nashpe | NeQuttianatamwe wuttinueu- 

 moh Christ | Noli assoowesit | John 

 Eliot. I Kahnawhutche ut aiyeuongash 

 oggussemese ontcheteauun | Nashpe | 

 Griudal Rawson. | [Eight lines of script- 

 ure texts in Indian.] ] 



Cambridge, j Printed by Samuel 

 Gr°en, in the Year, 1689. 



Translation: The-sincere | convert [literally, 

 'man who stands turned-about']. | Making- 

 known they-are-few sincerely | who-believe, | 

 having-been written in Englishman's language 

 by I that very-excellent servant-of Christ | who 

 is-named | Thomas Shepard 1 is-turned into 

 Indian language by | that honoured servant-of 

 Christ 1 who is-named | John Eliot. | And some 

 in places a-little amended | by 1 Grindal Eawson. 

 Title 1 leaf within a single line border verso 

 blank, Anakausuongane Petutteaonk [i. e. In- 

 troduction] with articles of belief 1 leaf, text 

 entirely in Indian pp. 1-161 verso blank, 16°. 

 Signatures- A to El in eights, and L in four, in- 

 cluding a blank leaf at the end. In the Massa- 

 chusetts Indian language. See the fac-simile 

 of the title-page, of which Dr. Trumbull's 

 translation is given above. 



On the 25th of August, 1664, Mr. Eliot wrote 

 to the Commissioners at Hartford : ' ' Touching 

 the Presse, I thank God & yourselves for the 

 good successe of the work in it. Mr. Baxter's 

 Call is printed and disp'"ced. And though I 

 have Mr. Shepard's Synceare Conv* & Sound 



