ALGONQUIAN LANGUAGES. 



507 



Verwyst (C.) — Continued. 



' Gete anaraie dibadjimowin, kije 



Mauito o masinaiganing ga-ondiniga- 

 deg. n 



Manuscript, 443 pp. in possession of its au- 

 thor, who writes me concerning it: "I have 

 hunted for my Chippewa Bible-history. The 

 Old Testament part has been found, and I have 

 counted the pages — 443. The name is : [as 

 given above!, which signifies: Old (ancient) re- 

 ligious relation (or history) taken from God's 

 book {i. e. Bible). It would make a book of 

 about 300 pages like my work 'Missionary 

 Labors.' " 



Oshki anamie dibadjimowin. Misa, 



O bimadisiwiniwa aw Jesus gaie o ki- 

 kiuoamagauan, kije Manito o masiuai- 

 ganing ga-oudinigadeuig. (*) 



Manuscript, 800 pp., in possession of its au- 

 thor, who says: "It would probably make 

 about 700 pages like my 'Missionary Labors.' 

 The title signifies: New religious narration. 

 That is, their lives Jesus and his apostles, God 

 his book derived (from)." 



Father Yerwyst was born November 23, 1841, 

 in TJden, Province Bord Brabant, Holland. He 

 landed in Boston in May, 1848 ; went to "Wis- 

 consin in 1855 ; was ordained priest in St. Fran- 

 cis Seminary, near -Milwaukee, November 5, 

 1865 ; and went among the Indians in the Lake 

 Superior country in 1878. 



"As to my name, I beg leave to say that I 

 used to be a secular priest, and then my name 

 was Christian Adrian. In 1882 I joined the 

 Franciscan Order, and then, as is usual on such 

 occasions, received a new name, that of Chry- 

 sostom. It was whilst I was still a secular 

 priest that I published the ' Mikana gijigong 

 enamog.' In 1886 I published my small En- 

 glish work, ' Missionary Labors,' when I was 

 already a Franciscan and had received the new 

 name Chrysostom. 



"As to the spelling, Verweyst or Yerwyst, I 

 lately came to the conclusion that the latter 

 mode of spelling is probably the more correct, 

 as many Dutch names are spelled with a sim- 

 ple y, e. g., Yan Slyk, Yan Dyk, " 



Vetromile {Jiev. Eugene). Indian good 

 book, I made by | Eugene Vetromile. S. 

 J., I Indian patriarch, | for the | bene- 

 fit of the I Penobscot, Passama- | qnod- 

 dy, St. John's, | Micmac, | and other 

 tribes of | the Abnaki Indians. | This 

 year one thousand eight hun- | dred 

 and fifty-six. | Old-town Indian village, 

 I and Bangor. | 



New York: | Edward Dunigan & 

 brother, | 151 Fulton Street. | 1856. 



Second title : Entered according to Act of 

 Congress, in the year 18.56, by | Edward Duni- 

 gan & Brother, in the Clerk's OflBce of the | 



Vetromile (E.) — Continued. 



District Court for the Southern District of 

 New York. | Alnambay uli | awikhigan, | kisi 

 tunessa | Eugin Yetromilo, S. J., | Alnambay 

 patlias, I ulihalakona | Penaubsket, Sybayk, 

 Ulastook, I Micmac, | teba miuaktakik ctalaun- 

 sisik I "Wanbanakki Alnambak. | Yo pemika- 

 took uekutara- | qu^ke nsansook kessak- | te-. 

 koy teba noninska | teba nekutans. | Penaub- 

 sket Alnambay | udenek, | teba Kaudoskik. | 



New York : | Edward Dunigan & brother, | 

 151 Fulton Street, | 1856. 



Frontispiece 1 1. English title verso 1. 2 recto 

 blank, Indian title C^itb copyright notice in 

 English at top of page) verso dedication in En- 

 glish to Pius the Ninth 1 1. dedication in Abnaki 

 verso blank 1 1. preface (dated June, 1856) pp. 

 7-12, rules for reading the language of the Ab- 

 naki Indians pp. 13-17, text pp. 19-444, index pp. 

 445-449, inscription on the monument of Father 

 Kale p. [450], 16°. 



Koman Catholic prayer book, including serv- 

 ice for mass, catechism, hymns, etc. in various 

 dialects of the Abnaki. The text is sometimes 

 in but one dialect, sometimes in two, in some 

 cases the dialect being named, in others not. 



Prayers, masses, vespers, etc. in Penobscot, 

 Mareschite or St. John's Indian language, Pas- 

 saraaquoddy, and Micmac (with a few in Latin), 

 pp. 19-148.— Yespers in Latin (with a few In- 

 dian headings), pp. 149-163. — Ave maris stella, 

 etc. (in Indian), pp. 164-165.— The litany of 

 saints (Latin and Indian, alternate pages), pp. 

 166-185. — Hymns in Indian language (Penobscot 

 and Micmac, ending with one in the Montag- 

 naise language), pp. 186-220.- Prayers in Mic- 

 mac language (preceded by a note on the pro- 

 nunciation), pp. 221-254. — Prayers for the Mon- 

 tagnais Indians of Tadussak (Labrador, north 

 of Bellisle), pp. 255-267.— The Lord's Prayer and 

 the Angelical Salutation, in pure Passama- 

 quoddy language, as we find them in an old 

 manuscript belonging (as we think) to Rev. Se- 

 bastian Easles, S. J., pp. 268-269. " Those Pas- 

 samaquoddy prayers, given by us in this work, 

 belong to the Kannibas Indians— a tribe once 

 living on the shores of the Kennebec, and at 

 present in part extinct, and partly dispersed 

 amongst the other tribes of the Abnakis. Al- 

 though the Passamaquoddy tribe at present re- 

 cite these prayers in Kannibas language, yefc 

 a great many of them say the same in pure Pas- 

 samaquoddy language." — Note in English, p. 

 270.— Hymns to be sung before Catechism (in 

 Indian), p. 271. — Penobscot catechism (English 

 and Indian, alternate pages), pp. 272-297.— Cate- 

 chism in Passamaquoddy and St. John's In- 

 dian language (English and Indian, alternate 

 pages), pp. 298-351.- An abridgment of the 

 Christian doctrine in Micmac Indian language 

 (English and Indian, alternate pages), pp. 352- 

 405. — Interrogations in administering the bap- 

 tism in Penobscot language, pp. 406-409.— The 

 same for the Passamaquoddy and other tribes 

 of the Abnakis, pp. 409-410.— Ths same in Mic- 

 mac language, the same in Montagnais Ian- 



