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Eduard Umfreville über den gegenwärtigen Zustand der Hudsonsbay, der dortigen Etablissements und ihres Handels... herausgegeben von E. A. W. Zimmermann.
Helmstädt: bey Fleckeisen, 1791
Physical Description: xxvi, 164 p., [2] folded leaves of plates : map. ; 22 cm. (8vo)
Call number: D791/ U51u
Accession number: 08544
Notes: Contains vocabulary of five Indian languages, as listed on p. 132: Ne-heth-a-wa Indianer; the Assinne-Poetuc; the Fall; the Sussee; and the Paegan, Blood or Black-Foot Indians. These last three, “in drei Stämme getheilten... machen zusammen dennoch eine Nation aus” and “reden dieselbe Sprache” (p. 148).
Section on Hudson’s Bay includes notes on counting and calendrical systems and the names of the moons with German glosses (p. 38-39). “Von den Ne-heth-a-wa Indianern” (p. 132-144) includes the names of the 13 moons with German glosses (p. 141-142) as well as remarks on counting and computing time. “Probe von verschiedenen indianischen Sprachen, die man in den Binnenländern der Hudsonsbay und Kalifornien redet” (foldout plate facing p. 148) is a table listing 3 dozen nouns and numbers 1-10 in 7 columns: Deutsche Namen; Ne-heth-a-wa, or Ka-lis-te-no; As-sin-e-po-e-tuc, or Stone-Indians; Fall-Indians; Black Foot-Indians; and Sussee-Indians; column 6, with heading Snake-Indians, is blank.
A translation of author’s The present state of Hudson's Bay, first published London, 1790. This first German edition, prepared by Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann, contains extensive introductory material and editorial notes by him and a map of the northern regions of North America adapted from an Arrowsmith map of 1791.
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Languages: Assiniboine / Cree / Sarsi / Shoshoni / Siksika
Genre: Vocabulary
Region: North America
