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Veritable relation de tout ce qui s'est fait et passé au voyage que Monsieur de Bretigny fit à l'Amerique occidentale. Auec vne description des moeurs, & des prouinces de tous les sauuages de cette grande partie du Cap de Nord, vn dictionnaire de la langue.
Paris: Pierre Rocolet, 1654
Physical Description: [30], 336, 347-463, [3] p. ; 17 cm. (8vo)
Call number: E654/ B791v
Accession number: 0166, 0452
Notes: Chapter XXIII, "Dictionnaire de la langue Galibienne" (p. 393-433), lists approximately 800 words in French with Carib equivalents; included are exemplary phrases and sentences.
There are several known states of this work. JCB has two copies, similar in that both have the epistle to Colbert printed on 5 leaves followed by the avis “Au lecteur”, but differing in other details.
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Languages: Carib
Genre: Vocabulary
Region: Caribbean Islands? / Guianas? / Spanish America?
