ALGONQUIAN LANGUAGES. 



427 



Rand (S.T.) — Continued. 



[Manuscripts in the Maliseet and 



Micmac languages. ] 



About 400 pp. mostly nnnumbered, 4°, loound. 



This book contains tbe final copy of tbe Mal- 

 iseet tract titled ''The ten commandments;" 

 John 6 and the 50th Psalm, in Maliseet; and 

 the epistles to the Eomans and Galatians, in 

 Micmac. Of these, all have been published 

 except the 50th Psalm. 

 [ ] A lecture de- | livered before sev- 

 eral I literary institutions | in Nova 

 Scotia on the | peculiarities of the Mic- 

 I mac & Maliseet tongues. 



Manuscript : no title-page, labeled as above ; 

 52 pp. 4°. 



' ' This is a rough draft. A fair copy is bound 

 up in a volume now in the hands of Mr. Lucius 

 L. Hubbard, of Boston, Mass."— Band. 

 A vocabulary of | Maliseet words. 



Manuscript, about 500 unnumbered 11. 4°, 

 bound. This book is, perhaps, not more than 

 half filled, but it contains a large number of 

 Maliseet words, arranged to some extent alpha- 

 betically by the Maliseet, the English equiva- 

 lent following. 



[Hymns in the Maliseet language.] 



Manuscripts. Titles as follows : 



1. Psalm 50. 



2. Psalm 51. 



3. Abide with me, fast falls the eventide. 



4. I'm going homo to die no more. 



[Maliseet Ollendorff and other trans- 

 lations. ] 



Manuscript, pp. 1-418,4°, bound, 

 It consists of a series of familiar questions 

 and answers in the style of the Ollendorff text- 

 books, the questions in English being on one 

 page and the Indian answers facing them with 

 corresponding numbers. About 50 pages are 

 filled with lists of Maliseet words and gram- 

 matic inflections explained in English. It con- 

 tains, also, the last two chapters of Luke in 

 Maliseet, "some extracts from the Catholic 

 prayer book in Penobscot, " two hymns in Mali- 

 seet, and the second commandment written by 

 an Indian. 



— ^ [Manuscripts treating principally of 

 the Maliseet language.] 



About 400 pp. 4°, bound. The first portion 

 contains the first draft of the tract in Maliseet 

 described above under the title " The ten com- 

 mandments," etc., with an accompanying list, 

 on the pages opposite, of words and grammatic 

 forms collected while translating the tract. The 

 verbs are generally conjugated fully through 

 the present indicative. 



Besides the tract, vocabulary, and grammar, 

 this book contains a translation of the 34th 

 Psalm, a hymn in Penobscot, and another in 

 Maliseet, "both from the Catholic prayer 

 book," and a vocabulary of the Maliseet 



Rand (S.T.) — Continued. 



language, consisting of 90 pages closely writ- 

 ten. 



" The translating was done for me by a very 

 intelligent Maliseet Indian residing at St. 

 Mary's, opposite Fredericton, N. B., named 

 Gabriel Thomas. The tract was translated 

 from the Micmac, which Gabriel spoke fluently, 

 as he did also the English and his own tongue. 

 But he could neither read nor write. It was 

 my first lesson in Maliseet, and I carefully col- 

 lected a vocabulary and made a grammar as I 

 went along." — Rand. 



[Manuscripts in the Maliseet and 



other languages.] 



275 pp. 4°, bound. The contents are as fol- 

 lows : 



Penobscot numerals 1-10, p. 1. — Assineboin 

 words, "obtained from a gentleman in Shel- 

 burne, N. S., named Mcintosh, who had spent 

 many years in the Hudson Bay Territory," 

 p. 1. — Bible history in the dialect of the Mal- 

 iseet Indians of New Brunswick (the ten 

 commandments, etc., another copy of the Mali- 

 seet tract), pp. 1-141. — Sketches of a grammar 

 of the Maliseet language, pp. 142-224.-^Tho 

 numerals in the dialect of the Penobscot In- 

 dians, p. 225. — " Thenumerals of the St. Francis 

 Indians (Abenaqui) or 'Ojibways,' as given me 

 by an Indian at Fredericton named Thomas 

 Legosh," p. 231.— "A hymn in the Seneca, and 

 tune composed by Edward Pierce, leader of the 

 Seneca brass band at the Alleghany reserva- 

 tion, KY.," pp. 239-240.— Names of relation- 

 ship in Maliseet, pp. 241-253.— A translation of 

 the Latin mediaeval hymn "Dies Irae" into 

 Micmac, roman characters, as given in the 

 hieroglyphic prayer book, pp. 254-256. — Penob- 

 scot words, p. 261. — Hymn "Abide with me," in 

 Maliseet, pp. 262-263.— Another hymn in Mali- 

 seet, p. 272. 



[ ] List of Indian names { of places in 



P. E. Island, i obtained Nov., 1880, by 

 the aid j of Peter Jim. 



Manuscript, pp. 207-210 of a large folio ac- 

 count book. The Indian names are followed 

 by the English equivalents. 



See Micmac literature. 



Rev. Silas Tertius Rand was born in King's 

 County, Nova Scotia, May 18, 1810. His study 

 of English grammar was not begun until he 

 had reached the age of 22. In April, 1834, he 

 entered the Baptist seminary at Wolfville, 

 where he made some progress in Latin. His 

 stay here was of short duration, but he pushed 

 forward his study of Latin and Greek while 

 working at his trade — that of a stonemason and 

 bricklayer— devoting all his leisure moments to 

 study. That same summer he began to preach. 

 He again attended the Wolfville academy u few 

 weeks during this summer (1834), and still 

 again a few weeks some years subsequently. 

 In the summer of 1836 he commenced the study 

 of Hebrew, which, together with that of Latin 



