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BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE 



Rand (S. T.) —Continued. 

 Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince 

 Edward Island, | Cape Breton and 

 Newfoundland. | By | rev. Silas Tertius 

 Rand, D.D., L.L.D. j 



Halifax, N. S.: | Nova Scotia printing 

 company. | 1888. 



Abridged title on cover, title as above verso 

 key to the pronunciation 1 1. preface pp. iii-viii, 

 text (English-Micmac only, in double columns) 

 pp. 1-286, 4°. 



The preface contains the analysis of a word 

 illustrating holophrasis, and ground forms con- 

 nected with the noun " mkdt,'^ a foot. 



"The compiler of the following work has 

 been for more than forty years laboring as a 

 missionary among the Micmac Indians. He 

 considered it a matter of prime importance to 

 make himself acquainted with their language, 

 and early set himself to the task, with what few 

 helps he could command ; and his success has 

 surprised himself as well as many others. As 

 many as forty thousand of their words have 

 been collected and arranged in alphabetical 

 order. ... It [this dictionary] is but one 

 portion, and that the smallest and least import- 

 ant portion of the whole work. It is, however, 

 complete by itself, and will give a good idea of 

 the language, and may lead, it is devoutly 

 hoped, to the publication of the larger and 

 more important portion, viz: the Micmac-En- 

 glish, which is ready for the press, or nearly so, 

 and the printing may be begun as soon as the 

 means for defraying the expense is forthcom- 

 ing. The Dominion Government have paid for 

 the manuscripts of both portions of the work. 

 They have declined to undertake the cost of 

 publishing both portions, but have furnished 

 means of printing the smaller portion — the 

 English-Micmac. ' '—Preface. 



Copies seen : Bureau of ;fithnology, Eames, 

 Pilling, Powell. 



The remaining portion of this work, still 

 in manuscript, is as follows : 



— [Dictionary of the language of the 

 Micmac Indians. Micraac-English.] 



Manuscript, 4 vols. 4°. 



The followine particulars concerning this 

 work were furnished me by Mr. Hand some 

 time ago, and before he had made an arrange- 

 ment to have it printed : 



" General plan of the work : 1. To record all 

 the words in the language so far as they can be 

 discovered. 2. To give their equivalents in En- 

 glish as correctly as possible, both their primary 

 and secondary significations. 3. To give the 

 principal parts of the verbs— and most of the 

 words in the language are verbs, while all, al- 

 most without exception, can assume a verbal 

 form — so that the verb can be conjugated 

 through person and number, mood and tense, 

 and voice. 4. To write the word phonetically, 

 80 that the true pronunciation — the real word — 

 may be distinctly seen and heard. 5. To give 



Rand (S. T. ) — Continued. 



the compounds to some extent, the most usual 

 ones, and the derivatives, for these are an es- 

 sential part of the language. 



"I have, in the course of about thirty-five 

 years, collected and arranged alphabetically 

 about 30,000 words. I am this winter [1883-4] 

 making it my chief business to complete the 

 correcting and the copying out into a fair hand 

 of the fourth volume of this work. 



" You ask the names of my assistants. The 

 meagre outlines of a Micmac Grammar, pub- 

 lished some years previous in the Royal Gazette 

 of Charlottetown, P." E. Island, by Mr. Irving 

 [q.v.], who had obtained the manuscripts of a 

 deceased French priest, who had resided in 

 INova Scotia, L'Abbe Legoyne [q. v.], gave me 

 some — I may say a good deal— of help. Irving 

 died before I could see him, and I could not ob- 

 tain any of his manuscripts. . . . 



"The first man I found who could really 

 help me was a Frenchman named Joseph 

 Brooks, who had resided among the Indians 

 many years. One of his sons, Tom Brooks, be- 

 came finally one of my most efficient teachers, 

 though he never learned either to read or write. 

 The greater part of my translations and com- 

 pilations was done with the assistance of Tom 

 Brooks. I had one other clever assistant for 

 several years who could both read and write. 

 His name was Benjamin Christmas, of Cape 

 Breton." 



Of the above I have seen only vol. 3, which, 

 with many other of his manuscripts titled below, 

 was kindly sent me by the author that I might 

 describe it. 



[ ] Promissiones Domini Nostri Jesu 



Christi factae B. IVIarg. M. Alacoque. | 

 KiilooswQkiinul eloowediimasoodeaal 

 wejetelooemkiil | Sasoo Goole ootenink, 

 oochit wejeoolkloot | Iklalgalet IVEale 

 Alakok, oochit negoola tanik | elega- 

 sooltijik Negiim wasogawa' ookwomla- 

 moonk. 



[ Dayton, O.: Philip A. Kemper. 1888.] 

 A small card, 3 by 5 inches in size, headed aa 

 above and containing twelve ' ' Promises of our 

 Lord to blessed Margaret Mary," in the Mic- 

 mac language, on the verso of which is a 

 colored picture of the sacred heart, with in- 

 scription in English below. Mr. Kemper has 

 published the same promises on similar cards 

 in many languages. 



Copies seen : Eames, Pilling, Powell. 



[ ] The only place of safety. | Tan tet 



pasiik ahk oohsiitogtin. 



[Halifax: Nova Scotia printing com- 

 pany. November, 1888.] 



No title-page, heading only ; text (entirely in 

 the Micmac language, roraan character^) pp. 

 1-4, 8°. No signature mark. 



Copies seen : Eames, Pilling. 



