Of this work, 111 pages, 18mo., from page 9 to 100 inclusive, have been received from Messrs. Irvin & Hamilton, missionaries among the Iowas, on the Missouri, in the service of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church of the United States. Its completion is looked for with interest.
There are but 8 pages of this publication, extending from pages 17 to 24 inclusive, which was transmitted by Walter Lowry, Esq., Secretary Board Foreign Missions Presbyterian Church, United States. These sheets contain tables of Iowa dyssyllables and trysyllables, carefully accented, with their equivalents in English, and constitute fragmentary elements of value.
This consists of 16 pages of translation, No. 132, of the same date and edition.
But five Chapters (32 pages,) of this Gospel, have been received from the translators, Messrs. Irvin & Hamilton, who are the same gentlemen engaged on the Grammar, No. 133.
137.—Otoe Hymn Book, by Moses Merrill. Shawanoe Mission. J. Meeker, printer, A. D. 1834.
This appears to be the only translation of any kind which has been made into Otoe. The sound of k following f, as in lra-ke-kofk, reminds the observer of a common sound in the Tuscarora, which appears wanting in all the dialects which are geographically located between them. It has also, the final tl, a termination so common to the Aztecs.
138.—Washashe Wageressa Pahugreh Tse. The Osage First Book. Boston: Crocker & Brewster, for the A. B. C. F. Missions. 1 vol. 18mo. 126 pages. A. D. 1834.
The broad sound of the letter a, as heard in fall, is represented in this compilation, by a peculiar enlargement of the letter. The word Wacondah, the family name of this groupe, for the Great Spirit, is dropped, and its place supplied by “Chihova,” (Jehovah.)
Of the thirteen distinct generic families or groupes of Indians, reported to exist along the Oregon and California shores of the Pacific, by the ethnographer of Captain Wilkes’ Expedition, but a single specimen of translation has been received. It was, it appears, the Sa-aptins, and not the Flatheads of the Salish groupe, who applied for teachers, by performing a long journey to St. Louis. And the small elementary work, below noticed, is to be regarded as the first fruits of the mission established among them.