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BIBLIOGRAPHY
E. J. Peck, Portions of the Holy Scripture for the use of the Esquimaux, London, 1878 (the first publication in Eskimo employing the syllabic character)..
J. C. Pilling, Bibliography of the Eskimo Language, "SMITHS INST. BUR. OF ETHNOLOGY," Washington, D.C., 1887; Bibliography of the Algonquian Languages, "BUR. OF ETHNOL. MISCELL. PUBL.," Washington, 1891.
E. M. North, The Book of a Thousand Tongues, New York and London, 1938.
South-western China: the Pollard and Allied Systems
For the non-Chinese peoples of south-western China, see also p. 141-148. The Miao cryptic script has already been mentioned. The missionaries who, at the end of the last century and at the beginning of the present,
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preached the Gospel to the illiterate Miao mountaineers, did not know of the existence of the indigenous script. At first, they tried to teach them Chinese and to present them the Scriptures in Chinese translation, but the task proved to be much too hard.
Faced by this situation, Samuel Pollard and the other members of
