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Show ill BIBLES TO PRESERVE DIALECTS Collection Contains Record Rec-ord of Conversion Attempts CHICAGO, Aug. M (By A. P.) For more than twenty-five yeare atlas C. A. Smith, curator of th K. w. Ay or collection of Americana at the Newberry library here, has been collecting col-lecting Indian blblee, and today her .h.lv.a contain th most complete ree-. ord In the world of attempts to ehris tlanlae the American Indian. The catalog contains blblee or parti of them In flfty-sl oborlgiaaj language., lan-guage., tncludlthg Klllot-t'e Indian lllblo, pubttahed in the eeventeenth century, when the Peruana flrat ..-tabllahed ..-tabllahed mlaalonary contact with the Now ngland rvrimen. There are bible, bi-ble, too. In Choctaw. Oee, Cherokee, Altec, Chipewa, Jdobawk and Penobscot. Pen-obscot. Worke uecd by mlealonane In the language of the Eeklmoe of Labrador and ureonland and another vranelaied Into the language of the Aleutian Islands also are 1a the collect col-lect Ion. ' After the Spanish American war, K, W. Ayer, who apent forty yeare gath .ring together hi. library of American Amer-ican lore, and who presented hla book, to the library, began collecting the biblcal literature which had been translated Into Philippine and Hawaiian Ha-waiian dialecta like llor.no. Taaalog Teim.hlan, Tukuthkuubln and other minor tongues. Store many of the langusge have been forgotten adding to the collection collec-tion le aald to he a difficult metier. A book wa. obtained In Part., aald to be a Hawaiian teat. ment, with the euphonloua name of "Kuke A Mora-mona" Mora-mona" by tieogl Pukunlakl. The translator'. name when deciphered meant George Mako-e-Blg-N'otoe. kftea Smith aft.rw.rd dlacovered aha bad bought the Book of Mormon and thai the transiator'i real name wa Ueorge Cannon. |