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BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE 



Mahan (I. L.) Words, phrases, and sen- 

 tences in Odjibwe. 



Manuscript, pp. 8-102, 4°, in the library of 

 the Bureau of Ethnology. Recorded in a copy 

 of Powell's Introduction to the study of Indian 

 languages, 1st edition ; all the schedules are 

 ■well-filled except 17, 20, and 22, which contain 

 no entries. Collected at Bayfield, Wis., in 

 1879, with the aid of the abb6 Ferard. Mr. Ma- 

 han was the Indian agent at Red Cliff Reserve, 

 Wis. 

 Mahican. See Mohegan. 

 [Maillard (Able Anthony S.)] An | ac- 

 count I of the I customs and manners | 

 of the I Micmakis and Maricheets | sav- 

 age nations, | Now Dependent on the | 

 Government of Cape-Breton. | From | 

 An Original French Manuscript-Letter, 

 I Never Published, | Written by a 

 French Abbot, | Who resided many 

 Years, in quality of Missionary, amongst 

 them. I To which are annexed, | Several 

 Pieces, relative to the Savages, to 

 Nova- I Scotia, and to North-America 

 in general. | 



London : | Printed for S. Hooper and 

 A. Morley at Gay's- Head, | near Beau- 

 fort-Buildings in the Strand. MDCC- 

 LVIII [1758]. 



Half-title verso blan k 11. title verso blank 1 1. 

 preface pp. i-viii, text pp. 1-138, adv't 1 1. 8". 

 A few Micmac terms scattering. 

 Copies seen: Brown, Congress, Wisconsin 

 Historical Society, Eames. 



The Carter-Brown catalogue gives a similar 

 title and collation of an edition of 1757. 



Lettre de M. I'Abb^ Maillard sur les 



missions de I'Acadie et particulierement 

 sur les missions micmaques. 



In Les Soir6es Canadiennes, recueil de lit- 

 t6rature nationale, troisi^me annee, pp. 289-426, 

 Quebec, 1863, 8°. 



Micmac sentences (several) preceded by the 

 equivalent French, pp. 295, 319, 359, 360.— Mic- 

 mac words passim. 

 Grammar | of the | Mikmaque lan- 

 guage I of Nova Scotia, | edited from 

 the manuscripts of the abb6 Maillard 

 I by the [ rev. Joseph M. Bellenger. | 



New York : | Cramoisy press. 1864. 



Second title: Grammaire | de la | laugue 

 mikmaque, | par | M. I'abbe Maillard, | redi- 

 g6e et mise en ordre par Joseph M. Bellenger, 

 Ptre. I [Design.] | 



Nouvelle-York : | presse Cramoisy de Jean- 

 Marie Shea. I 1864. 



Half-title verso blank 1 1. English title verso 

 blank 1 1. French title verso blank 1 1. text pp. 

 9-101, 80, Forms vol. 9 of Shea's Library of 

 American linguistics. 



'A Micmac grammar must be something 



Maillard (A. S.) — Continued. 



quite imperfect, seeing that very few have 

 fathomed the genius of that language. Mr. 

 Maillard is the only one known who has inves- 

 tigated it deeply, and who has been in the best 

 situation to give ua the true principles of a 

 tongue conforming so little to the genius of 

 other languages. A beginner can do nothing 

 better than to study his manuscripts in order 

 to leain to speak Indian purely and correctly. 

 However, to facilitate the study of this lan- 

 guage I have undertaken to work up his gram 

 mar, which lacks method and even clearness in 

 l>\aces.^^ —Avant-propos. 



"It is regretted that we have not the remain 

 der of Mr. Maillard's remarks. All the precepts 

 included iu this cahier are purely from him ; we 

 have only labored to write them out in a con- 

 tinuous and more methodical order. Somebody 

 will be pleased, perhaps, sometime, with our 

 work, especially in respect to the order in which 

 the verbs are placed. The conjugation of the 

 verbs with an object of animate things is still 

 needed, and rules of syntax. We can not better 

 terminate these precepts tha)i with this sentence 

 of the respected missionary [Maillard] : 



" ' In order to learn the Micmac language and 

 put one's self in condition to sjieak it as purely 

 and as easily as the Micmacs themselves, it is 

 necessary, when one has to live and dwell 

 among them, especially in the character of mis- 

 sionary, not to neglect to fix in the mind each 

 day a few of these remarks. The true means 

 of making one's self loved, feared, and listened 

 to by them, and even of succeeding in making 

 them think and act as one wishes they should 

 do and act on certain occasions or under cer- 

 tain circumstances, is to know how to express 

 one's self like them ; to apply one's self to do- 

 ing it with ease, especially in the church when 

 it is necessary to paraphrase some texts of the 

 old or new testament.' ''—Closing paragraph. 



Copies seen: Astor, Boston Athenaeum, Con- 

 gress, Dunbar, Eames, Powell, Trumbull, Smith- 

 sonian. 



Leclerc, 1867, no. 928, sold a copy for 36 fr. ; 

 priced by him, 1878, no, 2339, 60 fr. Triibner & 

 CO. 1882, p. 108, priced it 11. Is. 



Some copies are printed on large quarto 

 sheets. (Pilling, Smithsonian.) 



The manuscript of this grammar, pp. 1-184, 

 4°, in a bound book, is in possession of Dr. J. G. 

 Shea, Elizabeth, New Jersey; and there is a 

 copy as follows : 



— Cahier de la langue | Mimak Isic'] | 

 R6dige par les soins de | Monsieur Mail- 

 lard ancien missionnaire. ( Copi6 par 

 M. Joseph Bellenger. 



Manuscript, 411. pp. 1-154, sq. 8°, preserved 

 in the library of the Archbishopric of Quebec. 

 A copy, corrected and revise 1 from the original 

 by the Eev. Joseph Bellenger, according to notes 

 by him at the beginning and end of the manu- 

 script. The manuscript is bound in gray cloth 

 and is very well preserved. 



