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Rand (S. T. ) — Continued. 

 — — Micmac catechism. 



Manuscript, 38 pp. 16°. Written in a small 

 blank book labeled "Translations from [the 

 Roman Catholic] Indian praj'er-book — Micmac. 

 S. T. Rand, Charlottetown." Each question 

 and answer is followed by an English transla- 

 tion, written in an easy style of phonography, 

 more or less of which appears throughout most 

 of Mr. Rand's manuscripts. 



This manuscript, together with most of those 

 titled below, was kindly loaned me by its au- 

 thor a few years prior to his death. I do not 

 know into whose hands they have since fallen. 



Micmac OUeudorff. . (*) 



Manuscript, in the possession of Mr. Hub- 

 bard, of Boston, Mass., to whom it was sent 

 by its author, who says : "The Micmac Ollen- 

 dorff comprises, as near as I can remember, 

 about 400 pages, and consists of a series of 

 quBbtions and answers, facing each other, and 

 numbered off into lessons, a la mode Ollen- 

 dorff. It is intended as a simple aid to the 

 learning of the language." 



The decalogue as | read from the 



[Roman Catholic] Indian | prayer book 

 by Peter [Christmas] | at Escisogunic 



I June 12, 1852. 



Manuscript, 4 pp. 16°, apparently incomplete. 

 This is written inthe same blank book as the 

 catechism described above, which it immedi- 

 ately follows, and, like the catechism, it is ac- 

 companied by English equivalents in phono- 

 graphic characters. 



Sentences in | Mic Mac. | filenu we- 



gadigan. 



Manuscript in my possession. No title-page, 

 heading as above ; pp. 1-63, 16°. Paged reverse 

 of usual — even numbers on rectos, odd on 

 versos. Alternate pages Micmac and English, 

 in some cases the former occupying the rectos, 

 in others the versos. 



The manuscript includes not only sentences, 

 but short stories and portions of the scriptures, 

 and on pp. 9-10 is a partial conjugation of the 

 verb to see. — Exodus 20, pp. 11-14.— Genesis 1, 

 "translated March, 1847, by the aid of Joseph 

 Brooks," pp. 33-42.— John 4, "being the first 

 whole chapter translated by me (us) into Mic 

 Mac," pp. 42-52.— Gen. 2, pp. 53-58.— Gen. 3, pp. 

 58-63, and continued on p. 1. 



List of Micmac | words resembling | 



Greek, Hebrew, La- | tiu, &c. 



Manuscript, 34 11. 16°. In a blank book, 

 leather cover. 



Concerning this work the author wrote me 

 as follows: This is a collection of about 300 

 words, in which I saw, or fancied I saw when I 

 composed it, a resemblance between many Mic- 

 mac words and those of other languages, chiefly 

 the Greek. I am under the impression that a 

 comparison conducted on proper etymological 



Rand (S. T. ) — Contiuued. 



principles would swell the list to many hun- 

 dreds. 



Legends of the | Micmac Indians | 



and I extracts from the | Micmac prayer 

 book I with interlinear translations ( 

 into I English by | Silas T. Rand. 



Manuscript: title verso blank 1 1. introduc- 

 tion 2 11. text 191 11. 4°. 



Legends in Micmac and English, 96 11.— 

 Extracts from the Micmac hieroglyphic 

 prayer book (dictated by a daughter of Dennis 

 Michael, chief of the Indians in Cape Breton, 

 September, 1849, and written phonetically by 

 Mr. Rand in Micmac and translated into En- 

 glish), 95 unnumbered 11. Micmac and English 

 interlinear. 



Notes explanatory ] on the Micmac 



trans- | lation of the Psalms. | Refer- 

 ring principally | to the cases in which 

 the Mic- I mac version differs from | the 

 English. I Written about the I year 

 1855. I By Silas T. Rand | Hantsport | 

 Nova Scotia. 



Manuscript; a copy; 94 unnumbered 11. 4°. 



"In hunting among my papers, I have dis- 

 covered a manuscript that 1 can not well pass 

 over if you wish a full descriptive catalogue of 

 such unpublished manuscripts as are in my pos- 

 session referring to our Indiana and their lan- 

 guage. I send you the copy which I retained. 



"This was its origin. When we sent the 

 manuscript of the Book of Psalms, translated 

 into Micmac, to the British and Foreign Bible 

 Society, it occurred to them to inquire whether 

 it had been translated from the Hebrew or from 

 the English, I replied that I had translated 

 directly from the Hebrew, and that while I had 

 made use of the common English version and 

 others, I had not servilely followed it or any 

 of them, but that my version varied from the 

 English in a good many places ; I did not know 

 how many. Whereupon I was directed to state 

 all the cases in which the Micmac differed from 

 the English, and to state briefly my reasons. I 

 did so. Then we had a committee of our 

 learned divines of Halifax appointed to exam- 

 ine my paper, over which they spent a good 

 many days. Suggestions were made and amend- 

 ments proposed, and the dissertation was gone 

 over again carefully and revised, then copied, 

 and sent to London. The publishing commit- 

 tee of the British and Foreign Bible Society 

 expressed themselves well satisfied, and I was 

 sufficiently complimented for the literary as- 

 pect of the work, and the book was immedi- 

 ately published." — Rand. 



[Manuscripts relating to the Micmac 



language.] (*) 



I volume, 4°, bound, in the possession of Mr. 

 L. L. Hubbard, of Boston, Mass., to whom it 

 was sent by the author, who thus describes it: 

 " It contains : 1. Materials for a Micmac gram- 



