ALGONQUIAN LANGUAGES. 



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Mather (C.) — Continued. 



Affinity to, or Derivation from, any Europcean 

 speecli that we are acquainted with. I know 

 not what thoughts itwill produce inmy Reader, 

 when I inform him, that once finding that the 

 Dcemons in a possessed young woman, whereof 

 I have heretofore given the world some ac- 

 count, understood the Latin apd Greek and 

 Hehrew Languages, my curiosity led me to 

 make trial of this Indian language, and the 

 Demons did seem as if they did not understand 

 it." 



In his Magnalia (book vi, p. 75), this state- 

 ment concerning the bewitched young woman 

 is repeated, under date of November, 1688, as 

 follows : 



"Perceiving that her Troublers understood 

 Latin, some Trials were thereupon made 

 whether they understood Greek and Hebrew, 

 which it seems, they also did ; but the Indian 

 Languages they did seem not so well to under- 

 stand. " 



Dr. Trumbull, in the Memorial History of 

 Boston, criticises Mather's knowledge of the 

 language. " The devils, " he says, " who found 

 Mather's Indian too hard for them were not 

 without excuse. Judging from the specimens 

 he printed, he had not mastered the rudiments 

 of the grammar, and could not construct an In- 

 dian sentence idiomatically. It is not certain 

 how much of these translations was his own 

 work, and hoAv much was obtained from in- 

 competent interpreters." 



In the life of Cotton Mather by his son it is 

 stated that "he learned the French and Span, 

 iah Tongues and in his Forty-fifth Year con- 

 quered Iroquois Indian ; in each of which he 

 published Treatises for their Instruction." 

 This refers, without doubt, to the tract en- 

 titled Another Tongue brought in, printed in 

 1707. 



[Mathevet (Pere Jean Claude).] Aiamie 

 tipadjimoSiu [ masinaigau | ka ojitogo- 

 banen | kaiat ka niiuaSisi | mekateSi- 

 konaieSigobanen Kanactageng, | 8ak8i 

 [Mathevet] enaSindibanen. | [Picture 

 of the cross.] | 



O ki magSabikickoton John Lovell, | 

 Moniang [Montreal] : | ate mekateSiko- 

 naieSikamikong, | Kanactageng [Lake 

 of tv70 mountains]. | 1859. 



Title (verso approbation of Joseph, eveque 

 de Cydonia) 1 1. preface pp. ii-iv, text (history 

 of the old testament, entirely in the Nipissing 

 language) pp. 5-327, picture with inscription p. 

 328, index pp. 329-337 and 2 unnumbered pp. 

 18°. 



Copies seen: Congress, Eames, Pilling, Pow- 

 ell, Trumbull, Wisconsin Historical Society. 



Leclerc, 1867, no. 1604, sold a copy, bound 

 with the same author's Ka titc etc. for 8 fr. ; 

 the Field copy, no. 471, brought $3.25 : the Brin- 

 ley copy, no. 5657, 80 cts. ; the Murphy copy, 

 no. 25, $1.25. 



Mathevet (J. C.) — Continued. 



[ ] Ka titc I tebeniminang Jezos, | 



oudaje aking. | Oom masinaigau | ki 

 ojitogoban ka ojitogobanen | aiamie 

 tipadjimoSiu masinaigau, | 8ak8i [Ma- 

 thevet] enaSindibanen. | Design.] | 



O ki magSabikickoton John Lovell, | 

 Moniang [Montreal]: | ate mel.ateSiko- 

 naieSikaraikong. | Kanactageng [Lake 

 of two mountains], i 186L 



Title verso "avec approbation des sup6ri- 

 eurs" 1 1. preface pp. iii-iv, text (history of the 

 new testament, entirely in the Nipissing lan- 

 guage) pp. 5-386, index pp. 387-396, 18°. 



Copies seen: Congress, Eames, Pilling, Pow- 

 ell, Trumbull, Wisconsin Historical Society. 



At the Field sale, no. 472, a copy brought 

 $3.25; the Brinley copy, no. 5656, bound with 

 the same author's Aiamie etc. brought $2. 



In my Proof-sheets of a Bibliography of the 

 Languages of the North Ainerican Indians, nos. 

 947, 949, these two works are credited to the 

 Abb6 Cuoq, who has since informed me that 

 they are not his, but Mathevet's. 



[ ] Cantique en langae algouquiue. 



In Soci6t6 Philol. Actes, vol. 1, pp. 73-76. 

 Paris, 1872, 8°. 



Two Algonquian versions of the hymn Audi, 

 benigne Conditor, one by Mathevet, tho other 

 by N. O. [Abbe Cuoq], each with French trans- 

 lation and linguistic notes. 



Issued separately as follows: 



[ ] C; ntique en laugue algouquiue. 



Colophon : Paris, imprimerie Jouaust, 

 rue Saiut-Honor^, 338. [1872.] 



No title-page, heading as above ; text pp. 1-4, 



8°. 



Copies seen: Brinton, Eames, Pilling, Pow- 

 ell, Trumbull. 



[Abnaki-French Dictionary.] 



Manuscript, 71 11. of which 8 are folio and 63 

 4°, and of the latter 12 are blank. It is with- 

 out title-page or heading, the pages being ar- 

 ranged in double columns, Abnaki and French, 

 with the headings Ab. Ac. Ba. Bi. etc. The 

 first entry is Ab, the last, ZilaSakeSkSe. 



The manuscript is not clearly written, nor is 

 it in a very good state of preservation. 



[ ] t Elementa doctr. chr. Lengua 



AbuakSca. 



Manuscript, 12 11. 4°. There is no title-page, 

 the text, which is entirely in Abnaki, following 

 immediately the above heading. 



[ ] Prieres Abbenaques. 



Manuscript, 4 11. followed by 1 blank 1. sm. 4°. 

 It is without heading, the text, French and 

 Abnaki interlinear, following immediately the 

 above heading, which is at the top of the 

 recto of the first 1. 



