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series, of which the Institution has aided the publication by purchas- 

 ing copies for distribution: 



1. Grammar of the Mutsun language, spoken at the mission of San 

 Juan Bautista, Alta California ; by Father Felipe Arroyo de la 

 Cuesta. 



2. Vocabulary of the language of San Antonio mission, California, 

 by Father Bonaventure Sitjar. 



3. Grammar and dictionary of the Yakama language, by Rev. Mie. 

 Cles. Pandosy. 



4. Vocabulary or Phrase Book of the Mutsun language, of Alta 

 California, by Rev. Father Felipe Arroyo de la Cuesta. 



5. Grammar of the Pima or Nevome, a language of Sonora, from 

 a manuscript of the XVIII century. 



The first of these, the Mutsun grammar, was described in the last 

 report. The second, the vocabulary of the native inhabitants of 

 the San Antonio, or Sextapay, mission ; it was printed from a manu- 

 script forwarded to the Institution by Alexander S. Taylor, of Cali- 

 fornia. The mission of San Antonio de Padua was founded in 1771. 

 in the Sierra of Santa Lucia, twenty-five leagues southwest of Mon- 

 terey ; the authors of this vocabulary being the first missionaries. 

 The tribe is sometimes known as Tatche, or Telaine, though Mr. Taylor 

 calls it Sextapay. It is gradually disappearing ; not more than fifty 

 Indians still remain, although it is said they were, at one time, so 

 numerous that the dialects spoken by them amounted to twenty. 



The third is the grammar and dictionary of the Yakamas, a people 

 inhabiting the region of the Yakama river — a stream rising in the 

 Cascade range of mountains, and emptying into the Columbia above 

 the junction of the Snake river. The name signifies the "stony 

 ground,''* in allusion to the rocky character of the country. The au- 

 thor of the grammar, Father Pandosy, was for many years a resident 

 among these Indians, and became well acquainted with their language. 

 In the destruction of the buildings of the mission by fire, during the 

 Indian war in Washington Territory, the original of the grammar was 

 lost, and the translation, published by Mr. Shea, which was made 

 some time previously, alone remained. It is to be regretted that a 

 more extended dictionary than the one now published was also de- 

 stroyed at the same time. 



The fourth article is a vocabulary of the same language, of which 

 the grammar constitutes the first of this series, and is by the same 

 author ; the words are given in the Mutsun and Spanish languages. 



The fifth, the grammar of the Pima, with a vocabulary in the same 

 language and in Spanish, was obtained in Toledo, Spain, and trans- 



