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BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE ALGONQUIAN LANGUAGES. 



Lykins (J.) — Continued. 



Kiver. During the next six years his labors 

 ■were divided with Mr. McCoy and the other mis- 

 sionaries between the two stations, by •(vhich 

 arrangement they all acquired a better knowl- 

 edge of the Ottawa and Potawatomie lan- 

 guages. They were joined in 1824 by Mr. 

 Robert Simerwell, in 1825 by Mr. Jotham 

 Meeker, and in 1826 by Mr. and Mrs. Slater. In 

 1826 Mr. Lykins was licensed to preach the gos- 

 pel, and in.;1828 he was married to Mr. McCoy's 

 eldest daughter. 



After the formation of the Indian territory 

 by act of Congress, May 26, 1830, preparations 

 were made to remove the Baptist missions from 

 Caiey and Thomas stations, Mr. Lykins was 

 ■directed by the board of missions to settle in 

 the northern part of the new territory, among 

 the Shawanoes, on the line of the state of Mis- 

 souri. To this place he accordingly removed in 

 June, 1831, and in the following year he was 

 authorized to erect the necessary buildings. By 

 September, 1832, matters had progressed so well 

 under his management that public religious 

 exercises were held in the mission buildings, 

 for the benefit of the Shawanos, and a small 

 school for Indian children had been opened. In 

 February, 1833,Mr. Ly kins visited theDelaware 

 Indians on the neighboring reservation, and 

 made arrangements for instituting regular 

 preaching among them, and to open a school 

 Mr. Ira D. Blanchard, who had already gone 

 among them to learn the Delaware language, 

 was employed for this purpose. 



In the autumn of 1833, Mr. Meeker arrived 

 with a printing press, which was set up at the 

 Shawano mission, and before the 10th of May, 

 1834, a small book in Shawanoe by Mr. Lykins, 

 and another in Delaware by Mr. Blanchard, 

 had been printed, according to the new system 

 of orthography. During the summer of 1834, 

 " missionary operations progressed with in- 

 creasing interest, both among the Shawanoese 

 and Delawares. Manj^ among both tribes 

 learned to read in their own languages, and the 

 publishing and distribution among them of 

 small books, which many had become able to 

 read, promised a happy result." Mr. Lykins 

 also prepared hymns and some other prints, 

 which were used advantageously by the Shaw- 

 anos, Delawares, Peorias, and Weas, in the 

 neighboring Methodist mission, under the care 

 of E,ev. Thomas Johnson. 



In March, 1835, the first number was issued of 

 a semi-monthly paper entitled Shau-wau-nowe 

 Kesauthwau, edited by Mr. Lykins, and printed 

 at the Shawano mission press in the Shawano 

 language. During the summer of the same 

 year Mr. Lykins assisted Eev. John Davis, the 

 missionary to the Creek Indians, in compiling 

 a small school book in the MusCogee or Creek 

 larguage, and in translating the gospel of John 

 into the same, both of which were printed at 

 the mission press in the new alphabet. He also 

 compiled, with the help of the native mission- 

 ary, a book in the Choctaw language, which 



Lykins (J.)— Continued. 



was printed by Mr. Meeker. This book, how- 

 ever, was not brought into use. On the 18th of 

 October, Mr. Lykins was regularly ordained to 

 the work of the gospel ministry. 



In the winter of 1835-'36, while engaged in 

 translating the gospel of Matthew into the 

 Shawano language, he was attacked with a 

 nervous affection of the head, occasioned, per- 

 haps, by too close application to study, which 

 rendered him almost an invalid for several 

 years, and hindered greatly the work of trans- 

 lation. The printing of the gospel, which had 

 advanced to the middle of the 17th chapter, was 

 necessarily discontinued, and some copies of 

 the book were issued in an incomplete form. It 

 was not completed and finished at the press 

 until 1842, when a new title was printed with 

 that date. 



In 1837, Mr. Lykins compiled a primer or 

 "first book" in Osage, with the help of one 

 Joe Skigget, a Delaware youth who had ac- 

 quired a knowledge of that language. The 

 book was printed according to the new sys- 

 tem, before October of the same year. 



Between 1834 and 1839, according to Mr. 

 McCoy's statement, " in Shawanoe, threebooks 

 have been printed, and part of the Gospel by 

 Matthew. A second edition of one of these 

 books has been printed ; also, one book in Shaw- 

 anoe, for the Methodists." Besides, a consider- 

 able number of hymns were printed in the 

 same language, which are not included in the 

 above list. All of these were prepared in whole 

 or in part by Mr. Lykins. 



The following particulars have been furn- 

 ished by Mr. John B. Dunbar : In the spring of 

 1843, under the direction of Bev. Isaac McCoy, 

 who had been appointed general agent of the 

 American Indian Mission Association at 

 Louisville, Mr. Lykins left the Shawanoe sta- 

 tion and established a mission among the Puta- 

 watomie Indians, at a place about four miles 

 west of where Topeka, Kansas, now is. He 

 remained in charge of this mission for three 

 years, and then returned to his former station, 

 where he resided until the mission was dis- 

 continued, about the year 1855. He afterwards 

 removed to Kansas City, where he died in 1876. 



For an account of the new system of orthog- 

 raphy in which these books were printed, see 

 Meeker (J.) 



Lyle (H.) 

 words. 



Lists of 



Passamaquoddy 



Manuscript, in possession of Mr. W, F. Ga- 

 nong, Cambridge, Mass., who writes: "Ihavea 

 pasteboard pamphlet-cover in which, with a 

 copy of . . . I have three or four short lists 

 of Passamaquoddy words sent me by Mr. H. 

 Lyle of St. Stephen, N. B., one of them giving 

 17 Passamaquoddy names of persons (Christian 

 names, native), and another giving Passama- 

 quoddy names for 10 marine animals. These 

 are valuable, for Mr. Lyle speaks the language 

 and gives them very carefully." 



