ALGONQUIAN LANGUAGES. 



437 



Hicketson (D.) — Continued. 



chusetts : | including | a history of the 

 old township of Dartmouth | and the 

 present townships of Westport, | Dart- 

 mouth, and Fairhaven, | from their set- 

 tlement to the present time. | By Dan- 

 iel Ricketson. | 



New Bedford: | published by the 

 author. | 1858. 



Title verso copyright 1 1. preface pp. iii-riii, 

 contents pp. ix-xii, text pp. 13-408, index pp. 

 409-412, 12°. 



Explanation of Indian names [of places], pp. 

 134^136. 



Copies seen : Congress. 



Ridout (Thomas). [Vocabulary of the 

 Shawanese language.] 



Manuscript, 8 11. 12°, in possession of the 

 grand-daughter of its author, Mrs. M. Edgar, 

 Toronto, Canada, who kindly sent it to me for 

 examination. The recto of the first leaf is 

 blank; the vocabulary, with no apparent 

 arrangement, and without introduction of any 

 kind, begins on the verso of the 1st leaf and 

 extends to the verso of the 6th leaf, and con- 

 sists of about 225 words and phrases. On the 

 recto of the 7th leaf at the top (verso blank) 

 is the following note: "This little book of 

 Shawanese words was written by me when I 

 was a prisoner amongst that nation in the year 

 1788.— Th: Ridout. " The recto of the 8th leaf is 

 scribbled upon in English and Shawanese, and 

 the verso is blank. 



The following is an extract from Mrs. Ed- 

 gar's letter transmitting the vocabulary : 



"I have two vocabularies, one containing 

 about 200 words, the other about 400, of which 

 some are the same as in the smaller book. The 

 story of the way in which the dictionary was 

 written is contained in a manuscript narrative 

 writtenby my grandfather, Thomas Ridout, and 

 containing an account of his capture by the 

 Shawanese Indians and his life among them 

 during the spring and summer of 1788. I quote 

 his own words : 



" 'I had by this time acquired a tolerable 

 knowledge of their language, and began to 

 understand them, as well as to make myself 

 intelligible. 



"'My mistress loved her dish of Tea, and 

 -with the tea paper I made a book stitched with 

 the bark of a tree, and with yellow ink of 

 hickory ashes mixed with a little water, and a 

 pen made with a Turkey quill, I wrote down the 

 Indian name of visible objects. In this manner 

 I wrote two little books, which I carried in a 

 pocket torn from my breeches and worn around 

 my waist tied by a piece of Elm Bark.' 



"One of these little books I enclose to you 

 by registered letter, hoping it may not be lost 

 on the way. 



" The other and larger vocabulary is written 

 in Mr. Ridout's diary, which book was re- 

 restored to him by the Indians. I am now com- 



Ridout (T.) —Continued. 



piling my grandfather's and father's letters, 

 and thought of putting the narrative of his 

 capture as an appendix to the book, meaning to 

 include also the dictionary of Shawanese words. 

 I am therefore sending you the book for your 

 private perusal." 



Mr. Ridout died at Toronto February 8, 1829, 

 in the 75th year of his age. 



Rivington ( — ). See Gilbert (— ) and 

 Rivington ( — ). 



Rlathem-wakunek wtclawswakun [Del- 

 aware], See Zeisberger (D.) and 

 Blanchard (I. D.) 



Roberts (Rev. George Goodridge). Mali- 

 seet names for common objects. (*") 



Manuscript. Information from Mr. "W. F. 

 Ganong, Cambridge, Mass., who says: "Rev. 

 G.G. Roberts, Fredericton, K B., has a small 

 scribbling book in which he has recorded rough- 

 ly a number of Milicete names for common ob- 

 jects. I have not seen it, but he has promised 

 to give it to me." 



Robertson (Robert S.) Long Island 

 Indians. 



In Magazine of Am. Hist. vol. 2, pp. 370-371, 

 501, New York, 1878, 8°. 



Contains geographic terms with English sig- 

 nifications. 



Rockwell (E. F.) Analogy between the 

 proper names in Japan and the Indian 

 proper names in the United States. By 

 Professor E. F. Rockwell, of Davidson 

 College, N. C. 



In Historical Magazine, second series, vol, 3, 

 pp. 141-142, Morrisania, N. T., 1868, sm. 4°. 



The proper names of the United States are 

 from a number of families, among them some 

 of the Algonquian languages. 



Rodd (David). See Dougherty (P.) and 

 Rodd (D.) 



Rogers (Graham). See Gibbs (G.) 



Rogers (Joseph M.) Words, phrases, 

 and sentences in the language of the 

 Menomonee Indians of Shawano Co. 

 Wisconsin, 



Manuscript, pp. 77-228, 1 1. 4°, in the li- 

 brary of the Bureau of Ethnology. Recorded 

 in a copy of Powell's Introduction to the study 

 of Indir.n languages, second edition. The 

 schedules are but partially filled. 



[Romagne (Eev. James B. )] The [ Indian 

 prayer book : | compiled and arranged 

 for the benefit of the | Penobscot | and | 

 Passamaqnoddy Tribes. | Printed by or- 

 der of the I Right Rev. B. Fenwick, ( 

 Bishop of Boston. | 



Boston : | printed by H. L. Devereux. 

 I 1834. 



