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Voyages and travels of an Indian interpreter and trader, describing the manners and customs of the North American Indians situated on the river St. Laurence, Lake Ontario, %c. To which is added, a vocabulary of the Chippeway language. Names of furs and skins, in English and French. A list of words in the Iroquois, Mohegan, Shawanee, and Esquimeaux tongues, and a table, shewing the analogy between the Algonkin and Chippeway languages.
London: Printed for the author; sold by Robson [et al.], 1791
Physical Description: x, [4], 295, [1] p., [1] folded leaf of plates: map; 30 cm. (4to)
Call number: D791/ L848v/ 1-SIZE; B790/ C838h/ 1-SIZE
Accession number: 0627, 34266
Notes: Contains numerous names of Indian chiefs, and members of tribes, and numerous examples, peppered throughout the text, of phrases and place names in various Indian languages which the author knew or which the Indian spoke to him. Also contains detailed description of various Indian villages in Upper and Lower Canada, upstate New York, and the Great Lakes regions. Discusses the Five and Six Nations of Indians, descriptions of Indian dances, marriage ceremonies and other social customs.
Includes various speeches by Indian chiefs, betrothal speeches, and war songs in the text in the Ojibwa language.
Vocabularies of Indian languages, p. [183]-295, 3rd count, include a list of words in English and an Eskimo language on p. [183]; a comparative glossary of numbers 1-100 and every hundred thereafter to 1,000 in English, Iroquois, Algonquin and Ojibwa on p. 184-195; a comparative glossary of verbs and nouns in English, Algonquin and Ojibwa on p. 196-208; a comparative glossary of words in English, Mohegan and Shawnee on p. 209; a comparative glossary of words in English, Mohegan, Algonquin and Ojibwa on p. 210-211; a glossary of words in English and Iroquois on p. 212-215; "Names of furs and skins in English and French" on p. 216-217; "Parts of the human body" in English and Ojibwa on p. 218-220; "Names of animals, &c" in English and Ojibwa on p. 221-223; "Merchandise" in English and Ojibwa on p. 224-226; a general table of words in English and Ojibwa on p. 227-252; a general table of words in Ojibwa and English on p. 253-282.
"Familiar phrases in the English and Chippeway languages", p. [283]-295, has divisional title page.
"Sketch of the western countries of Canada 1791", folded frontispiece map, is a map by the author of the regions of the Great Lakes, the St. Lawrence, and James' Bay with the location of the resident Indian tribes.
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Languages: Algonquin / Inuit? / Iroquois / Mohegan / Ojibwa / Shawnee
Genre: Dictionary / Specimen / Vocabulary
Region: North America
