Originally published as the Forty-Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology. This edition published with a new introduction by David Reed Miller.
Booklet includes the brief account of the life of Nicola Tenesles, an indigenous man who spoke Etchemin, French, Micmac. Included in the book is a brief dictionary in Etchemin and English and some names for animals in English, Etchemin and Micmac.