La rivista di storia Americana con note e richieste . ermined che suo figlio dovrebbe havebetter vantaggi rispetto a quanto aveva goduto, e di conseguenza lo ha mandato per atime alla scuola in poi piccolo villaggio di frontiera di Brantford. Quiil lad ha mostrato una intelligenza e un attitudine all'apprendimento che fortu-nately attirato l'attenzione di un neo arrivato missionario. Questo è stato thelate Rev. Adam Elliot, un sacerdote della chiesa inglese, che per molti il capo George H. M. JOHNSON *33 anni si dedicò con zelo instancabile per l istruzione religiosa dei theIroquois converte. Ha trovato la loro lingua-WH

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The magazine of American history with notes and queries . ermined that his son should havebetter advantages than he had enjoyed, and accordingly sent him for atime to the school in the then small frontier village of Brantford. Herethe lad showed an intelligence and an aptitude for learning which fortu-nately attracted the attention of a newly arrived missionary. This was thelate Rev. Adam Elliot, a clergyman of the English church, who for many CHIEF GEORGE H. M. JOHNSON *33 years devoted himself with untiring zeal to the religious instruction of theIroquois converts. He found their language—which is a peculiarly com-plex speech, and is broken up into several dialects—not easy to master.As the Mohawk (or Canienga) idiom was spoken by the largest number ofthe people; and was generally understood by the others, it occurred to himthat his best course would be to train up an intelligent youth of that na-tion to interpret his exhortations to his hearers. Young George Johnsonwas recommended for this office, and thus had the good fortune to find. CHIEFSWOOD. HOME OF CHIEF GEORGE H. M JOHNSON. himself installed in Mr. Elliots family, as at once his pupil and his assist-ant. He was still but a lad, and the instruction and practice which heneeded to qualify him for his responsible duty occupied several years. Totranslate readily the recondite reasonings of an English sermon into a lan-guage of such a different type as the Iroquois was a task of no small diffi-culty. That he finally mastered this art, and was able to convey to an Indianaudience, promptly and accurately, the meaning of the most complicatedpassage of an English speech, was admitted by all among his hearers whowere acquainted with both languages. In translating rapidly from Iroquois 134 CHIEF GEORGE H. M. JOHNSON into English he was not always so happy. In his childhood he had spokenand thought only in Mohawk. English always remained to him, in a meas-ure, a foreign speech ; and a certain hesitation was someti

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