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America. Compiled from his own Papers.
Berwick, 1782.

18° pp. 243.

31 One of a numerous class of fictitious works of little merit, which aimed to attract attention by assuming a title giving an air of veracity to the narrative.

ANDERSON (Rufus).

Memoir of Catherine Brown, a Christian Indian of the Cherokee Nation. By Rufus Anderson, A. M. Second edition. 24° pp. 144. Boston and New York, 1825.

The work has been many times reprinted in varying sizes and forms.
ANECDOTES OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS.
Illustrating their Eccentricities of Character.
of Evenings in Boston, Ramon the Rover, etc.
Hartford, 1852.

ANNUAL REPORT

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By the Author

18° pp. 252.

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Of the Select Committee of the Society for Propagating the Gospel among the Indians and others in North America. sented November 4, 1845. 8° pp. 32.

THE SAME. 8° pp. 31.

Boston, 1847.

THE SAME. 8° pp. 36.

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ANTIQUITATES MEXICAINES (Du Capitaine Dupaix). Antiquitates Mexicaines. Relation des Trois Expeditions du Capitaine Dupaix, Ordonnees en 1805-1806, et 1807; pour la Recherche des Antiquites du pays, notament celles de Mitla et de Palenque; Accompagnee des dessins de Casteñada et d'une Carte du pays explore. Suivie d'un parallele de ces monuments avec ceux de l'Egypte, de l'Indostan, et du reste de l'ancien Monde par M. Alexandre Lenoir. D'une dissertation sur l'origine de l'ancienne population des deux Ameriques, et sur les diversees Antiquites de ce continent, par M. Warden, avec un discours preliminaire par M. Charles Farcy, et des explicatives et autres documents par MM. Baradire de St. Priest et plusieurs Voyageurs qui ont parcourir l'Amerique. 2 vols. folio. Vol. I. Text 224 pp. and contents 4 pp. Vol. II. 164 pp. of plates, and 3 pp. contents. Paris, 1834.

39 [Mexican Antiquities. Relations of three Expeditions of Captain Dupaix, undertaken for the purpose of researches among the Antiquities of Mexico; more particularly those of Mitla and Palenque. Accompanied by designs from Casteñada, and a map of the country explored, followed by a parallel drawn between these monuments, and those of Egypt, and of the rest of the Ancient World, by M. Alex. Lenoir. Also a dissertation on the Origin of the Aboriginal population of the Two Americas, and of the various antiquities of that Continent, by M. Warden, with a preliminary dissertation, by M. Charles Farcy, and explanation of other documents, by Messrs. Baradire de St. Priest, and many other travellers who have visited America.] These noble volumes contain a vast amount of information regarding the ruins of Palenque and Mitla, of which also they present one hundred and

sixty-five splendid views. The last are seldom found complete in the few
copies offered for sale, as the work was published and distributed in frag-

ments.

APES (William).

The Increase of the Kingdom of Christ, A Sermon. By Wil-
liam Apes, a Missionary of the Pequod tribe of Indians. 12°
Pp. 24.
New York, printed for the author by G. F. Bunce,
1831.

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This tract, written by the Indian William Apes, contains on the last four
pages a treatise entitled "The Indians, the Ten Lost Tribes."
APES (William).

Indian Nullification of the Unconstitutional Laws of Massachu-
setts, relative to the Marshpee Tribe; or, The
Explained. By William Apes, an Indian, and
Gospel. Cloth. 12° pp. 168. Boston, 1835.

than Howe.

Pretended Riot
Preacher of the
Press of Jona-

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If all the statements of the author, who claims to be a lineal descendant of
the tribe, which suffered such murderous slaughter at the hands of Captains
Church and Underhill, are true, there is a long score of wrongs to be settled
with the State of Massachusetts. According to this author, the descendants
of the men who sold the son of King Philip, and more than two hundred of
his subjects into the cruel slavery of the Spanish Islands, still held the feeble
remnants of her aboriginal population in a species of slavery. The thrifty
selectmen of any town in Massachusetts, could, if adroit and unscrupulous,
pay the whole annual tax of the town by seizing upon the proceeds of the
labor of two or three Indians. Apes declared that if any active whaleman
of aboriginal blood (as many of the most expert of the Gayhead and Nan-
tucket harpooners were) should be entitled to a share of five or six hun-
dred dollars, the selectmen could seize upon, and convert it to defray any
expenses for indigent Indians. I have seen no other evidence to corroborate
his statements.

APESS (William).

Eulogy on King Philip, as pronounced at the Odeon, in Federal
Street, Boston. By the Rev. William Apess, an Indian, Janu-
ary 8, 1836.
Second Edition. 8° pp. 48. Boston, published

by the author, 1837.

APES (William, a Son of the Forest).

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The Experience of William Apes, a Native of the Forest.
Comprising a notice of the Pequod Tribe of Indians; written
by himself. Published by the Author. 18° half roan.
York, 1829.

APESS (William).

New

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Experience of Five Christian Indians of the Pequod Tribe.
Published by William Apess, Missionary of that Tribe and
author of The Son of the Forest. Second Edition. 8° pp. 47.
Boston, printed for the publisher, 1837.

APPLETON (Nathaniel).

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Gospel Ministers Must be fit for the Masters Use and Prepared
to every Good Work if they would be Vessels unto Honour:
Illustrated in A Sermon Preached at Deerfield, August 31,
1735. At the ordination of Mr. John Sargent, to the Evangeli-

cal Ministry, with a Special Reference to the Indians of Hous-
satonnec, who have lately manifested their desires to receive
the Gospel. By Nathaniel Appleton, M. A., Pastor of the
Church of Christ in Cambridge. [Motto 4 lines.] 8° pp. xiv. +
33. Boston, printed and sold by S. Kneeland and T. Green, in
Queen Street, 1735.

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The Preface, pp. xiv. is a Historical Narration of Missions among the Housa-
tonic Indians; pages 1 to 33 Sermon.

ARCHEOLOGIA AMERICANA.

Transactions and Collections of the American Antiquarian So-
ciety. Published by Direction of the Society. Vol. I. Worces-
ter, Massachusetts. Printed for the American Antiquarian So-
ciety, by William Manning, 1832. Vol. II. Cambridge, 1836.
Vol. III., n. p., 1857. Vol. IV., n. p., 1860. Large 8°
This Collection is largely composed of treatises upon and histories of the
Aborigines of America; volumes I. and II. being wholly devoted to them.
The most valuable essay on the languages of America, is only to be found
printed in the second volume of this collection.

Contents of Volume I. :-

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1. HENNEPIN (Father Lewis). A New Discovery of a Large Country in the
Northern America, extending above four thousand miles, pages 61 to 104.
2. ATWATER (Caleb). Description of the Antiquities discovered in the State
of Ohio, and other Western States. Illustrated by Engravings of An-
cient Fortifications, Mounds, etc., from Actual Survey, pp. 105 to 267, 10
maps, I plate, and many cuts in the text.

3. JOHNSTON (John). Account of the Present State of the Indian Tribes
inhabiting Ohio, with a Vocabulary of the Shawaneese Language, pp. 269

to 299.

4. FISKE (Moses). Conjectures respecting the Ancient Inhabitants of North
America, pp. 300 to 307.

5. ALDEN (Timothy). Antiquities and Curiosities of Western Pennsylvania,
pp. 308 to 313.

6. MITCHEL (Samuel L.) Seven Letters and Addresses descriptive of In-
dian Poetry, Antiquities, and Origin, pp. 313 to 355.

7. Two Letters from J. Farnham and Charles Wilkins upon the Same.
8. SHELDON (W.) Brief Account of the Caribs, pp. 365 to 433.
Contents of Vol. II. :

9. GALLATIN (Albert). Synopsis of the Indian Tribes in North America
(north of Mexico), pp. 1 to 422. Tables of comparative vocabularies, and
verbal forms, occupy the last 155 pages of this noble work, of one of the
most accurate and learned men of America.

10. GOOKIN (Daniel). An Historical Account of the doings and Sufferings
of the Christian Indians in New England, in the years 1695 to 1697, pp. 423

to 564.

11. NEWPERT'S (Capt. James) Discoveries, Virginia, 1607, pp. 40 to 65 of
Vol IV.

ARENAS (Pedro de).

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Vocabulario de las Lengvas | Castellana y Mexicana | en que
se contienen las palabras, preguntas, y respuestas mas co |
munes, y ordinarias que se suelen offre | cer en el trato, y com-
municacion entre Espanoles, e Indios. Compuesto por Pedro
| de Arenas. | Impresso con licencia, y approbacion. | En Mex-
ico. En la emprenta | de Henrico Martinez. (1611). Small

4o.

8 prelim. leaves, namely, Title, 1 leaf, License, 1 leaf, Prologo, 1 leaf, Tabla 5 leaves. pp. 1–160.

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[Vocabulary, or Manual of the Spanish and Mexican Languages; in which are contained the words, questions, and answers most ordinarily used in communications between the Spaniards and Indians. Composed by Pedro de Arenas. Printed with license and approbation in Mexico, 1611.]

The date of the Petition is found at the end of the Privilege. The note to the title of this edition in Sabin's Dictionary, says, "A volume of great rarity. A complete copy is scarcely known." Ternaux, “A small and very rare volume."

Botturini, in his Catalogo del Museo Indio, places the Vocabulario under the date of 1583; but as it is not uncommon to antedate works printed without the year being named, I am inclined to believe the edition of 1611 to be the first. An instance of this is seen in White Kennett, who places the English edition of Peter Martyr without date under 1597; while the first with a date is 1612. The Manual of Arenas was reprinted in 1690, 1700, 1728, 1793, 1831, and with the addition of French phrases in 1862. ARICKAREE INDIANS..

Correspondence Relative to Hostilities of the Arickaree Indians. Washington, 1823.

48 Pages 55 to 109 of Government Documents containing the testimony, etc., official reports and narratives of Military Expeditions against the Arickarees. ARROYO DE LA CUESTA (Rev. F. Felipe).

A Vocabulary or Phrase Book of the Mutsun language of Alta California. By the Rev. F. Felipe Arroyo de la Cuesta, of the Order of St. Francis. Large 8° Two titles, English and Latin, pp. 96. New York, Cramoisy Press, 1862.

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No. VIII. Shea's Library of American Linguistics. The vocabulary in Mutsun and Latin.

ARROYO DE LA CUESTA (Father Felipe).

Grammar of the Mutsun Language spoken at the Mission of San Juan Bautista Alta California, by Father Felipe Arroyo de la Cuesta. Large 8° English and Spanish titles each 1 leaf, pp.

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No. IV. Shea's American Linguistics.

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The Mutsuns were a tribe of Indians occupying a valley in California about forty miles northwest of Monterey, and were the most northerly tribe of whose language the Spanish missionaries compiled a grammar. The San Juan Bautista Mission was established among the Mutsun Indians, in 1799. The work was printed from the original MSS. forwarded to the Smithsonian Institute by the President of Santa Inez College. Their language closely resembles that of the Indians Diegeno, a savage people living near the Mission Soledad on the River Salinas, and also that of the Indians of the Mission of San Carlos near Monterey. Father Felipe Arroyo de la Cuesta came to California in 1810, and died at Santa Inez Mission in 1842.

ASHER (G. M.)

Henry Hudson the Navigator. The original documents in which his career is recorded, collected, partly translated, and annotated, with an Introduction, by G. M. Asher. 8° Prel. pp. (10), Introduction, ccxviii. Divers Voyages, pp. 1 to 292. London, printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1860.

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The relations of his three voyages to the coast of America by the eminent and

unfortunate discoverer, afford us the first authentic information regarding the Indians of New York, and of the Esquimaux of Labrador. The editor asserts what we do not recollect to have seen elsewhere stated: "Verrazano seems to have been the pilot [of the Samson and Mary] and to have lost his life in an encounter with the North American Indians." p. xcv. of Introduction.

ATHERTON (William).

Narrative of the Sufferings and Defeat of the Northwestern Army, under General Winchester; Massacre of the Prisoners; Sixteen Months Imprisonment of the Author and others with the Indians and British. 12° Frankfort, Ky. 1842.

ATWATER (Caleb).

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The writings of Caleb Atwater. Columbus, 1833. [2d Title.] A Description of the Antiquities discovered in the Western Country; originally communicated to the American Antiquarian Society, by Caleb Atwater. 8° pp. 408.

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The third title, at p. 167, is, " Remarks made on a Tour to Prairie Du Chien; thence to Washington City in 1829." The first work, "A Description of Antiquities" has never been printed in a separate form, its first publication having been in the first volume of Archeologia Americana. In this the prints and maps were much better executed, some even having been omitted in the Cincinnati edition.

The Tour is a reprint of the greater portion of that published in 120, pp. 296, at Columbus in 1831. In this however the rudiments of the Sioux Grammar are omitted. The antiquarian portion is a well written description, apparently conscientiously accurate, of the mounds, fortifications, mortuary remains, implements, and weapons of the ancient Aborigines of Ohio. The zeal and industry of the author, stimulated by a thirst for the acquisition of knowledge regarding the mysterious people of whom these were the relics, have produced a work not much less valuable, because the author had little scientific training, to teach him what to search for. Ethnology indeed, at the period of Mr. Atwater's researches, had not crystallized its facts into a science. The work is accompanied by eleven plans, mostly folding, besides several cuts printed in the text, illustrative of subjects mentioned.

ATWATER (Caleb).

Remarks made on a Tour to Prairie Du'Chien; thence to Washington City in 1829, by Caleb Atwater, late Commissioner employed by the United States to negotiate with the Indians of the Upper Mississippi, for the purchase of mineral country, and author of Western Antiquities. 12° pp. 296. Columbus, O., published by Isaac N. Whiting, 1831.

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Some very curious particulars relating to Customs of the Winnebagoes are related by Atwater. Although nothing indicating the mission of Atwater appears on the title, yet the real object of his tour was to procure as Commissioner of the government, a cession of the title of the Winnebago, Pottawatomie, Chippewa, and Ottawa Indians, in the rich mineral lands, now forming the State of Wisconsin and part of Illinois.

Much the greater part of the work is devoted therefore to a narration of the peculiarities of those tribes which he visited, biography of some of their chiefs, Indian poetry, specimens of their language, and incidents of his associations with them.

On pages 149 to 172 the author has given "Rudiments of the Grammar of the Sioux Language," all of which is omitted in the edition of 1833. On

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