Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1917-08-23
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mnemonically a whole sentence Of
verse, a large number of arbitrary de
signs have been added to express idea,
and words which were not American
and devices were Incorporated witt
them intended to represent the pecu
liarities OF the Micmac grammar a,
understood by Kauder, and 1t would
seem Of n universal grammar antedat
ing Eolaptik. The explanation of these
additions has never been made known
kauder Died Without Having Left
Any Record or Explanation
OF the plan by which he attempted tc
convert the mnemenic characters i'm.
vented by the Indians into what ma
be considered an exposition of organ.
lied words (not soundsl in grammati
cal form.
The result is that in several camps
OF Micmacs visited by the present
writer In Cape Breton island. Prince
Edward Island, and Nova Scotia. frac.
ments of the printed works are KEEP
and Used for religious Worship. and
also many copies on various sheets and
scraps OF paper have been made Of sim,
liar fragments. but their use is entirely
mnemonic. as was that Of their ancient
bark originals.
1t Is probable that Father Kauder
mad some idea Of reducing the language
OF the M1cmacs to a written form.
based not upon verbal or even syllable
notation. but, upon some anomalous
compromise between their Geographic
original or substratum and a gram
matte sup~erstructure. If so. he en-
tfrely failed. The interesting point
with regard to this remarkable and
unique attempt Is, that there is I'M
doubtedly a basis of Indian designs
and symbols included and occluded
among he differentiated devices in the
three volumes mentioned. which arbi-
trar1ly express thoughts and words by
a false Photographic method, instead of
sentences and verses. But the change
from the pictorial forms to those
adopted, If not as radical as that from
the Egyptian hieroglyphs to the Ro-
man text. resembles that from the
archaic to the modern Chinese. There
fore 1t would follow that the present
form of the h aracterS is not one
which the Indians would learn more
readily than an alphabet or a sylla-
barry, and that is the ascertained fact.
At Cow Bay, a Micmac camp. about II
miles from Halifax, an aged chief who
In his bOyhOOd at Cape Breton Island
was himself instructed by Father Kau-
In these characters, explained that
Kauder taught them to the boys by
drawing them oil a blackboard and by
repetition, very much In the manner in
which a schoolmaster In civilized
countries teaches the alphabet to chill
dren. The actual success Of the Chero-
KEGS In the free and general use of Sc
quoya's ~Syllabary, which was not
founded on Photographs, but on signs
for sounds, should be noted In this con-
nectfon.
Among the thousands of scratchings
on the KejemkOojik rocks, many Of
which were undoubtedly made by the
Micmac. only two characters were
found resembling any IN Kauder's vol
umes, and those were common symbols
Of the Roman Catholic Church. and
might readily have been made by the
~Frenchmen, who also certainly left
scratchings there. Altogether after
study of the subject 1t is con
sidered that the levices In Father Kau-
work are so intrinsically changed,
both in form and intent, from the gen
uine Micmac designs that they a not
presented as examples of Indian pic
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which remained in manuscript until
1866. when Father Kauder, a Redemp-
torist who for some time ministered to
them. had type bearing the ~iedeograms
I'm Austria, with which he printed
(sicD a catechism and prayer book"
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auffiibrt, lit in oieiem
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