67.—Lenapee Spelling Book. Shawnee Mission. J. Meeker, for the Baptist Society. A. D. 1834. 24 pages, 18mo.
SECTION VII.—SHAWANOE.
68.—The Gospel of St. Matthew. Shawanoe Baptist Mission, Ind. Ter. J. Meeker, printer. A. D. 1836. 1 vol. 18mo. p. 64, with 16 pages of hymns added, by Johnston Lykins.
This translation has been compared with the Greek text, by J. A. Chute, M. D.
69.—Shawnee Speller and Reader. Siwinowe Eawekitake. By Johnston Lykins. Shawanoe Mission. J. Meeker, printer. A. D. 1834. 1 vol. 18mo. 54 pages.
This is executed in the Meekerian system of notation. “The consonants are not pronounced aloud, but have precisely the same sound as in reading English.”—Editor. The word “Siwinowe,” the equivalent for “Shawanoe,” may serve as an example of the two systems. It has not perhaps, occurred to the author, that when the new system has been learned by the pupils, there will be no other books to be read in it, except those which he or others may publish, in accordance with this very artificial and unpronounceable key; and that to the learner, the whole body of English instruction, science and learning must be a dead letter.
70.—Pratt’s edition of the preceding. A. D. 1838. 24 pages.
This is a summary or condensed form of Mr. Lykins’ First Spelling Book. Both are printed in the consonantal system.
SECTION VIII.—ABANAKIS.
71.—Kagakimzouiasis Weje Wo’ banakiah. Catechism in the Abanaki language. Quebec: Frechette & Co., for the Catholic Church. 1 vol. 44 pages, 12mo. A. D. 1832.