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ABENAQUI.
"THE Abenaquis, who
originally belonged to Nova Scotia and Maine, now inhabit a wide district of
country situated to the south of the River St. Lawrence, between the St. John
River, of New
Brunswick, and the River Richelieu, in Canada. Their language differs
but little from the Micmac.
They were formerly associated with the Micmacs in alliance with the
French, and in hostilities against
the British colonies. They were
early converted to
Roman Catholicism; but the
only work, apparently,
that was printed by the
Jesuit mies. for their
benefit is a catechism in the Abenaqui language,
published at Quebec, for the Roman Catholic Church, in 1822.
The Gospel of St. Mark was a
few
years since translated into Abenaqui by a native preacher, named Osunkhirhine,
and an edition was
printed at Montreal. At the station of this preacher there were, in
1847, fifty-five native Abenaquis
reclaimed from their savage state, and united in church-fellowship."--
The Bible of Every Land. (1860, Second Edition) Samuel Bagster
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