ALGONQUIAN LANGUAGES. 



511 



Vetromile (E.) — Continued. 



Letter of the Abuakis Indians to the canons of 

 Chartres (in Abnaki and English), pp. 168-171 

 "This vow must have been written soon after 

 the conversion of the Abnakis to Christianity, 

 as appears fi om the meaning of the vow, and 

 from the language, which is several hundred 

 years old, and obsolete in many words and ex- 

 pressions." 



Copies seen: British Museum, Congress, 

 Eames, Harvard, National Museum, Pilling, 

 Shea, Trumbull. 



At the Field sale, no. 2433, a copy brought 

 $1.38; at the Piuart sale, no. 925, 5 fr.; at the 

 Murphy sale, no. 2596, $2. 



Acadia and its aborigines. Commu- 

 nicated January 16, 1862, by Rev. 

 Eugene Vetromile, S. J. of Worcester, 

 Mass. 



In Maine Hist. Soc. Coll. vol. 7, pp. 337-349, 

 Portland, 1876, 8°. 



Names of seasons, list of months, divisions of 

 the month, days of the week, divisions of the 

 night and day, in the Abnaki language. 



A tour I in j both hemispheres; | or, 



I travels around the world. | By | Rev. 

 Eugene Vetromile, D. D., | apostolic 

 missionary; | Corresponding Member 

 [&c. four lines.] j [Two lines quota- 

 tion.] j 



New York: | D. & J. Sadlier & co., 

 publishers, | 31 Barclay street, | Mont- 

 real : 275 Notre Dame Street. | 1880. 



Portrait 1 1. title verso copyright 1 1. dedica- 

 tion verso blank 1 1. contents pp. v-viii, preface 

 pp. ix-x, list of illustrations pp. xi-xii, text pp. 

 1-494, index pp. 495-502, twenty-live plates, 12°. 



A few Chippewa terms with English signifi- 

 cation passim. 



Copies seen: Congress, Eames, Pilling, Powell. 



Vetromile's | Abnaki Dictonary 



[sic], I by I Rev. Eugene Vetromile, D. 

 D. I Apostolic missionary [&c. five 

 lines.] I Volume I | A-H. | English- 

 Abnaki [-III | A-Z. | Abnaki-English 

 (and Latin)]. | 



Bangor, Me. | 1855, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 

 61, 62, I 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 

 72, 73 [74, 75]. 



Manuscript, 3 vols, folio, in the library of the 

 Bureau of Ethnology. Compiled by Father 

 "Vetromile during the years 1855 to 1875, while 

 missionary among the Abnakis. Volume 1, pp. 

 1-573, contains prefatory remarks, description 

 of the alphabet used, synopsis of the Abnaki 

 language, including brief grammatic remarks, a 

 table of abbreviations, and the English- Abnaki 

 dictionary from A to H, inclusive. Volume 2, 

 pp. 3-595, contains further remarks on the 

 grammar, and a continuation of the English- 



Vetromile (E.) — Continued. 



Abnaki dictionary, I to Z, inclusive. The 

 dictionary in each of these volumes is divided 

 into four columns; the first containing words 

 from the Abnaki dictionary of the Eev. Father 

 Raslcs; the second, words in the Penobscot; 

 the third, Mareschit; and the fourth, Micmac. 

 Volume 3, pp. 1-791, contains the Abnaki-En- 

 glish dictionary, A to Z, and includes words in 

 the Penobscot, Etchimin, Mareschit, Micmac, 

 Montagnie, and Passamaquoddy dialects. In 

 this volume the definitions are also in Latin, 

 "in order to fix The meaning of the Indian 

 words against alterations, which the English 

 language might undergo in course of time." 



The manuscript is clearly written and well 

 preserved, being bound in heavy leather. 



The Aborigines of Acadia. | An ad- 

 dress before the Maine Historical | So- 

 ciety in 1861 by Rev. Eugene Vetromile 

 I Missionary of the Etchemius, Maine. 

 I Corresponding Member of the Maine 

 Historical | Society etc. 



Manuscript, 811. 4°, preceded by one leaf con- 

 taining a letter from Vetromile to Rev. Charles 

 Kauder, dated Biddeford [Maine] July 28, 1862, 

 transmitting the manuscript. It is a general 

 account of the aboriginal settlements, with 

 many native terms, their etymology and mean- 

 ings, passim. 



The manuscript was in possession of Mr. Ber- 

 nard Quaritch, London, England, who kindly 

 permitted me to examine it. He priced it 11. Is. 



It is perhaps the original manuscript, or a 

 copy thereof, of the article which appeared 

 under similar title in the Maine Hist. Soc. Coil. 

 vol.7, for which see above. 



The following extract fromaletterof Father 

 Vetromile to Rev. Joseph M. Finotti, dated 

 from Biddeford, Dec. 7, 1864, probably relates to 

 this manuscript: "At the request of Rev, 

 Christian Kauder, a missionary amongst the 

 Micmacs of Nova Scotia, I wrote an article on 

 the Micmacs. He was publishing the Micmac 

 Hieroglyphics (discovered by me), and my arti- 

 cle was inserted there under my name as a pref- 

 ace to the work. The work could not be pub- 

 lished in this country for want of the proper 

 types. The Austrian Government took the 

 matter in hand and cast the proper types for it, 

 and it was published in Vienna. The pub- 

 lisher requested a short history of the Micmacs 

 to be used for preface. Mr. Kauder could not 

 write it, but applied to me, and I wrote it. He 

 translated it in German at Nova Scotia, and 

 sent it to Vienna, where it was published in 

 German. No edition exists in English." 



In another letter to the same person, dated 

 from Eastport, 28 Settembre, 1875, Father Ve- 

 tromile writes: " Circa all' opera del P. Kauder, 

 non credo che sia starapato, perch6 i caratteri 

 non esistono, mi sembra che sia litografata in 

 un vol: in quarto di 146 pag: ed il nome del 

 litografo non fu publicato. Sar^ piii facile per 



