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Fellechner, A. M. Vocabulario de la lengua de los moskitos [manuscript] : sacado de la relación de los s[eño]res Fellechner, Mũller y Hesse, Berlin, 1845.

Title: Vocabulario de la lengua de los moskitos [manuscript] : sacado de la relación de los s[eño]res Fellechner, Mũller y Hesse, Berlin, 1845. [between 1851 and 1878]

C. Hermann Berendt's transcription of approximately 415 vocabulary entries, including numbers, from the book published in 1845 by A. M. Fellechner, Dr. Müller, and C. L. C. Hesse, entitled Bericht über die im höchsten Auftrage Seiner Königl. Hoheit des Prinzen Carl von Preussen und Sr. Durchlaucht des Herrn Fürsten von Schoenburg-Waldenburg bewirkte Untersuchung einiger Teile des Mosquitolandes, erstattet von der dazu ernannten Commission. Whereas in the published book the authors give the Miskito word followed by the German equivalent, Berendt's list presents only Spanish equivalents and not the German, except for a few instances in which he notes the German equivalent in pencil. In addition to the vocabulary list found on pages 269-274, his transcription includes the following material from the same work: 1) a list covering numbers from 1 to 1000 (p. 20-21; Fellechner, p. 250-252); 2) a list of supplemental vocabulary entries (p. 22-24) that Berendt extracted from the pages describing the grammar of the language (Fellechner, p. 241-268); and 3) a song, or poem, in Miskito (p. 25) which the authors of the book attribute to Ben, son of Pablo, of Cape Gracias a Dios, Honduras (Fellechner, p. 268). In the book, the poem is given with a German translation, which Berendt omits, giving his own Spanish translation instead. Two notes in red ink (p. 6, 8) are apparently cross-references to Alexander Henderson's Grammar of the Mosquito language; Berendt's copy of that work is in the Rare Book Collection, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania. One footnote added by Berendt (p. 8), concerning the Miskito for iguana, refers to Thomas Young's book Narrative of a residence on the Mosquito shore; for Berendt's transcription of Miskito vocabulary from that work, see Ms. Coll. 700, Item 130.

ArchivalResource: 13 leaves paper ; 204 x 126 (155 x 85-90) mm. bound to 204 x 126 mm.

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