[53] In a communication from Mr. W. H. Holmes, former Chief of the Bureau of American Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution, with reference to the Penicaut manuscript, he states that no translation from this source has been made and that French (HIST. COLL.) is unreliable. For the printed form, in the French language, Margry’s DÉCOUVERTES (ETC.), Vol. V, is the authority. [54] Pierre Francois Xavier de Charlevoix, a French traveller, born October 29, 1682, at St. Quentin, died, 1761. His most important work of American interest bears the following title: HISTOIRE ET DESCRIPTION GÉNÉRALE DE LA NOUVELLE FRANCE, AVEC LE JOURNAL HISTORIQUE D’UN VOYAGE FAIT PAR ORDRE DU ROI DANS L’AMÉRIQUE SEPTENTRIONALE. Paris, 1744. Several editions of the work, in three and six volumes respectively, were issued in Paris during this year. JOURNAL D’UN VOYAGE (ETC.), usually forms the last volume, with a separate title page. During 1761 this portion was published in English in London, two volumes, but it was not until 1865-72 that the HISTOIRE proper was translated, and at that time by J. G. Shea (New York, 6 vols.). Foster is obviously in error as to the date mentioned (1722). Charlevoix’s work was not ready for publication at that time, though he had no doubt finished it in 1724, at which date he issued simultaneously, the JOURNAL which was addressed to the Duchess de Lesdiguières. Some partial reprints of Charlevoix do not contain the linguistic portions. [55] Here the writer no doubt refers to the mutilated and meretricious issue of the Lewis and Clark JOURNALS, published by William Fisher of Baltimore during 1812. As a contribution to the literature of the subject, the volume is entirely devoid of worth and statements concerning linguistics or events have little value. Coues, in his edition of the Lewis and Clark TRAVELS, gives full details of this publication. See also the present writer’s BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION, _Literary Collector_, March, 1902. In Thwaites’ edition of the ORIGINAL JOURNALS OF LEWIS AND CLARK, 1904, (Vol. I, page 45), Ayauway is noted, as an early form of spelling.