Dr. Rand’s work, when studying the language, was made less difficult by securing the assistance of Joe Brooks, an intelligent Frenchman, whose father was a sailor in the French navy, captured by the British during the last war, and brought with other prisoners to Halifax. When liberated, instead of returning to France he settled at Digby; and his son Joseph, led on by a spirit of adventure, went into the forest and made his home among the Micmacs, marrying one of their women. Following the Indian custom, he gave prominence to the meaning of his name, _Ruisseau_, and gave it in English as Brooks. He had become thoroughly “civilized” according to the Micmac standard, and, as he was an intelligent man, proved a great help to the busy minister who was so anxious to learn Micmac that he would ply him with questions by the hour, noting down most carefully every answer, until, instead of learning, he could teach. Before we go on following Dr. Rand in his life-work, many readers would like to know more about those pages in his Diary which are of so much interest to the linguist and the antiquary. Here let Dr. Rand speak for himself, so that now, as years ago, his personality may explain his position, and disarm all criticism. “May 6th, 1877.—I do not think I am ambitious of fame, but I think it meet that friends should know that, proposing to translate the Scriptures into the languages of the Indians, I can furnish them with some confidence of my ability in foreign languages and dead languages. But I fear to spend too much time over it. . . . I have received a letter from Jacob Martin stating that his brother Moses will be willing to assist in translating the Scriptures into Mohawk, but would prefer coming down to N. S. I am quite taken with the idea. It would obviate one objection to the work, as I need not then wholly neglect the Micmacs. “10th. . . . Have studied Mohawk to-day; and corrected Latin hymns and studied Latin versification by way of relaxation.” Here it may not be out of place to insert one stanza of the Latin hymn upon which he was working “by way of relaxation.” The final form of the stanza will be inserted also, to show his freedom of expression in Latin. He is translating the hymn, “Just as I am.” (_As written 10th May, 1877._) Prorsus ut sum—nec ulla spe, Nisi Tu mortuus sis pro me, Et jubes ire me ad Te, O, Agnus Dei, sum, (adsum). (_As published in 1881._) Sicuti sum—nec sine spe, Quia Tu mortuus es pro me, Et jubes ire me ad Te— O Agnus Dei, venio. (_A page from one of the Latin Sections of the Diary._)