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Des berühmten Herrn Baron de Lahontan neueste Reisen nach Nord-Indien, oder dem mitternächtischen America mit vielen besondern und bey keinem Scribenten befindlichen Curiositaeten... Aus dem Frantzösischen übersetzet von M. Vischer.
Hamburg and Leipzig: Reumannischen Verlag, 1711
Physical Description: [24], 253, 256-753, [1] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : map ; 13 cm. (12mo)
Call number: E711/ L184d
Accession number: 04304
Notes: "Lista der wilden Nationen in Canada mit ihren üblichen Sprachen", p. 363-368, lists the various tribes in Acadia, in the areas of Montreal and Québec City, Hudson's Bay and in the "southerly lands of Canada" and the languages they speak.
"Anhang eines Wörter-Buchs von der Wilden Sprache," p. 563-590, gives an exposition of the Huron (Wyandot) and Algonquian languages as the most important in Canada, followed by a selection of vocabulary in the Wyandot and Algonquian languages.
Double page title printed across the center fold.
Virgules replaced by commas in title page transcription.
A translation and abbreviated edition of the author's Nouveaux voyages de Mr. le baron de Lahontan dans l'Amerique Septentrionale, first printed The Hague, 1703.
Narrative of the first part is in the form of 25 letters.
Folded map with title "General-Carte von Canada" bound to face p. 1, 2nd count.
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Languages: Algonquin / Wyandot
Genre: Grammar / Vocabulary
Region: North America
