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Jesuits.

Mémoires géographiques, physiques et historiques. Sur l'Asie, l'Afrique & l'Amérique. Tirés des lettres édifiantes, & des voyages des missionnaires Jesuites.

Paris: Durand, neveu, 1767

Physical Description: 4 v. ; 17 cm. (12mo) v.4: [2], 408 p.

Call number: E767/ J58m

Accession number: 34991

Notes: Vol. 4, which relates to America, Canada and the Louisiana Territories, contains scattered phrases in Chiquito and other languages native to the Paraguay river area (p. 56, p. 97, p. 125, p. 135), as well as renderings in French and four North American Indian languages (Abnakise, Algonkine, Huronne, Illinoise) of the stanza beginning “ô Salutaris Hostia” from the “Hymne du Saint Sacrement” (p. 316-317). Compiled by Jacques-Philibert Rousselot de Surgy (b. 1737), who also added some editorial material. Cf. Echeverria.

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Languages: Abenaki / Algonquin / Chiquito / Illinois / Wyandot

Genre: Specimen

Region: North America / Spanish America