ALGONQUIAN LANGUAGES. 



477 



Stearns (R. E. C.) — Continued. 



No title-page, heading only ; text pp. 1-10, 8°. 

 Reprinted from the Overland Monthly for Octo- 

 ber, 1873. 



Names of shell money in the Indian language 

 of New England, p. 4. 



Copies seen : Eames. 



Stearns (Winfrid Alden). Labrador | a 

 sketcli of I its peoples, its industries 

 and its | natural history. | By | Win- 

 frid Alden Stearns. | 



Boston; | Lee and Shepard, 47 Frank- 

 lin street. | New York : Charles T. Dil- 

 lingham. 1 1884. 



Title verso copyright (dated 1883) 1 1. preface 

 (dated July 14, 1884) pp. iii-iv, contents pp. v- 

 viii, introduction pp. 1-7, text pp. 9-295, 8°. 



Numerals 1-10, 20, 30, of the Labrador In- 



dians, and a vocabulary of 35 "other words" 



which are Algonquian, probably Nascogee, p. 



294. 



Copies seen : Bureau of Ethnology, Congress, 



Steiger(E.) Steiger's | bibliotheca glot- 

 tica, I part first. | A catalogue of | 

 Dictionaries, Grammars, Readers, Ex- 

 positors, etc. I of mostly | modern lan- 

 guages I spoken in all parts of the 

 earth, | except of | English, French, 

 German, and Spanish. | First division: 

 I Abenaki to Hebrew. | 



E. Steiger, | 22 & 24 Frankfort Street, 

 I New York. [1874.] 



Half-title on cover, title as above verso 

 printer 1 1. notice dated Sept. 1874 verso blank 

 1 1. text pp. 1-40, advertisements 2 11. colophon 

 on back cover, 12°. 



Titles of works in Abenaki, p. 1 ; Algonkin, 

 p. 3; American aboriginal languages in gen- 

 eral, pp. 3-4 ; in Cree, p. 25 ; in Delaware, p. 29. 



The second division of the first part was not 

 published. Part second is on the English lan- 

 guage, and part third on the German language. 



In his notice the compiler states : " This com- 

 pilation must not be regarded as an attempt at 

 a complete linguistic bibliography, but solely 

 as a bookseller's catalogue for business pur- 

 poses, with special regard to the study of phi- 

 lology in America." 



Copies seen: Eames, Pilling. 



Steinhauer (Bev. Henry). [Translations 

 in the Cree language.] (*') 



In a biography of Mr. Steinhauer published 

 in the Missionary Outlook for January, 1881, it 

 is stated that "Mr. Steinhauer translated from 

 the beginning of the Psalms to the end of the 

 old testament and from the beginning of 

 Romans to the end of the new [into the Cree 

 language]. 



In the Canadian Methodist Magazine for 

 May, 1885, the Rev. John McLean says: "He 

 [Steinhauer] and John Sinclair, a half-breed, 



Steinhauer (H. ) — Continued. 



translated the bible into Cree. Sinclair trans- 

 lated the old testament to the end of Job and 

 the new testament to the end of the acts of the 

 apostles. Mr. Steinhauer translated the re- 

 maining parts of the old and new testament. 

 I have in my library a manuscript copy of 

 Genesis written in the Cree syllabic characters 

 by John Sinclair. It is a beautiful specimen 

 of penmanship." 



See Mason (W.) for a fuller discussion on the 

 translation of the bible into the Cree language. 



The Rev. H. B. Steinhauer, an Ojebway In- 

 dian, Avas born near Rama about 1820. In 1828 a 

 great awakening took place among the Indians, 

 and in the same year 133 were baptized at Hol- 

 land Landing, among whom was the subject of 

 this sketch, who' received the name of Henry 

 Steinhauer. 



After remaining a year or two at school at 

 Grape Island, young Steinhauer was sent to 

 Cazenovia Seminary, where he remained three 

 years, making commendable progress in his. 

 studies. He then returned to Canada and 

 taught school for two years at the Credit Mis- 

 sion. In 1835 he went to the Upper Canada 

 Academy, which he left the tollowing year to 

 teach school at the Alderville Mission. In the 

 spring of 1840 he left Alderville to accompany 

 the Rev. James Evans to the north-west, but 

 was left by the devoted missionary at Lac la 

 Pluie, as interpreter to the Rev. W. Mason, who 

 had been sent to that point by the English So- 

 ciety. Bro. Steinhauer continued in this capac- 

 ity for several years, and then, by Mr. Evans' 

 instructions, he went on to Norway House, 

 where he served as teacher and interpreter till 

 the year 1850. He was next sent to Oxford 

 House to begin a mission, where he spent four 

 years. During 1854 he went to York Factory, 

 from which point he sailed in a company's ship 

 to England, reaching that country in October. 

 Leaving again in December, he reached Canada 

 before Christmas. At the London conference 

 of 1855 Bro. Steinhauer was ordained and sent 

 to Lac la Biche, where he remained till June, 

 1857, when he went to "Whitefish Lake. After 

 twenty-three years of continuous service Bro. 

 Steinhauer, by consent of the Missionary Com- 

 mittee, is now spending the season in Onta- 

 rio.— Ifimonary Outlook for Jan., 1881. 



From the Rev. Egerton Ryerson Young's 

 Sy Canoe and Dog-Train among the Cree and 

 Salteaux Indians, New York and Cincinnati, 

 1890, pp. 21-23, 1 take the following additional 

 notes : 



"One of the most devoted and successful of 

 our native Indian missionaries was the Rev. 

 Henry Steinheur. When a poor little pagan 

 child, wretched and neglected, he was picked 

 up by the Rev. "William Case, who patiently 

 cared for the lad, and not only taught him the 

 simple truths of Christianity, but also laid the 

 foundation of an English education, which 

 afterwards became so extensive that many a 

 white man might honestly have envied him. 



