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Evans (J.) — Continued. 



made by ttie writer of this paper to teach, them 

 [the D6n6s, an Athapascan dialect] to read and 

 write their own language, and the result has 

 been really wonderful. In order to attain this 

 satisfactory and promising result, he has had to 

 compose a syllabic alphabet somewhat on the 

 principle of that so suitably invented by the 

 late Mr. Evans for the Cree language, but which 

 he soon found to be totally inadequate to ren- 

 der correctly the numerous and delicate sounds 

 of the D6n6 dialects. Besides (why should I 

 not say it?) it lacks that method and logic 

 which have been applied to the new or improved 

 syllabics, and which have thereby simplified 

 the acquisition of the language. I am now 

 continually in receipt of letters from Indians 

 whom I never taught and who have learned to 

 read after one or two weeks' (in some cases I 

 might say three or four days') private instruc- 

 tiou from others." 



A sample of the new syllabary, with inter- 

 linear D6n6 transliteration and an English 

 translation, is given in Father Morice's paper. 



For further comments upon the invention of 

 the syllabary see Mason (W.) 



See Henry (G.) and Evans (J.) 



See Jones (P.) and others. 



See Mason (W.) 



See Yofung (E. R.) 



and Jones (P. ) The first nine chap- 

 ters I of the I First Book of Moses, 1 

 called I Genesis. | Translated into the 

 Chippe way tongue | by James Evans, | 

 missionary : j and | revised and cor- 

 rected by Peter Jones, | Indian mis- 

 sionary. I 



York: j printed at the office of the 

 Christian Guardian. | 1833. 



Second title: Shongahsweh | enewh natahme- 

 singin chapters | emah netum | Oodoozhebee- 

 guning owh Moses | Genesis | azhenekahdaig. 

 I AnwaidowhOojebwa keezhe ahnekahnootah- 

 beung I owh James Evans, | makahdaweekoon- 

 ahya: | kiya ] kegwahyahquahsedood | owh 

 Kahkewaquonaby [Peter Jones], | aneshen- 

 ahba makahdaweekoonahya. | 



York: I Kedahz he ahdesegahdaig. | 1833. 



English title verso 1. 1 recto blank, Chippe- 

 way title recto 1. 2 verso blank, half-title recto 

 1. 3, text verso 1. 3 and 21 other unnumbered 11. 

 8°. Alternate pages English (on versos) and 

 Chippeway (on recto^) throughout. 



Copies seen : Trumbull. 



For an edition of 1835 see Jones (P.) 



The following notes are extracted from an 

 article by the Rev. John Carroll, in the Cana- 

 dian Methodist Magazine for October, 1882 : 



"James Evans was English, born in King's 

 Place, town and county of Kingston-upon-Hull, 

 January 18th, 1801. His parents were Wesleyan 

 Methodists, named respectively James and 



Evans (J.) — Continued. 



Mary Evans. His father was the master of a 

 merchant ship. 



" Shortly before the emigration of the family 

 to Canada James removed to London, and was 

 employed in a large glass and crockery estab- 

 lishment, where he remained about two years, 

 and then proceeded to join the family group at 

 Lachute, Lower Canada. 



"After a few months he opened a school in 

 the neighborhood of L'Orignal, where he 

 formed an acquaintance with Miss Mary Blithe 

 Smith, which ripened into love and marriage. 

 This occurred about the year 1822 or '23, when 

 he was not much passed twenty-one. About 

 1825 they removed to Upper Canada. 



His first entrance upon Indian work in con- 

 nection with Canadian Methodism was that of 

 organizing a school at Rice Lake,in 1 828,to which 

 he was introduced by the indefatigable Elder 

 Case. Their sojourn at that place comprised 

 three years. Here he began to evince his inter- 

 est in every thing Indian, including the sta dy and 

 systematizing of their language, which pointed 

 him out as specially adapted to the work of 

 native evangelization, and laid the foundation 

 for his great success in that work. 



"The Credit Mission was one of the oldest 

 and best: it sought the improvement of a large 

 band of Missasaugas, whose fertile lands 

 skirted a sizable river, noted for salmon fish- 

 ing, central between the two ends of the prov- 

 ince. It had been intrusted to men of more 

 than usual calibre — Egerton and George 

 Ryerson and James Richardson — while it was 

 Elder Case's frequent resting place, and, the 

 proper home and place of his translation work, 

 and was the base of the evangelizing operations 

 of the notable Ka-ke-way quon-a-by, or Peter 

 Jones, native missionary. Yet it was thought 

 proper that Evans should be entrusted to take 

 up and further carry on the great work they 

 had done. 



" There wa?, up to the year 1832, a large body 

 of unchristianized Indians at what we now 

 know as Sarnia, and at several other places on 

 and near the upper end of the St. Clair River. 

 A stern and experienced agent was required, 

 and was found in the person of James Evans, 

 and that heroic and versatile man was stationed 

 by the Conference of 1834 at St. Clair. 



" He went, without gainsaying, and entered 

 on every part of the multifarious work which 

 devolved upon him — visiting, conciliating, 

 building, preaching, praying, studying the lan- 

 guage, translating and getting his translations 

 printed — a work he patiently continued four 

 long weary years. During that time a church 

 and mission-house were erected, fields were won 

 from the wilderness, schools were organized 

 and taught, and printed hymns and other books 

 were put into the hands of his flock, old and 

 young, out of which they read and sang of the 

 wonderful works of God. 



"At the opening of the year 1838-'39 the 

 Church entered on wider fields of Indian evan- 



