Hugo Schuchardt Archiv

Dear D^r. Schuchardt,

I left Coimbra on the 24^th, and after a night at Thomar, a most interesting place on the Nabão, arrived here on the 26^th with an Englishman who is paying my expenses and profiting by my slight knowledge of Portuguese. My address will be till the 11^th of Feb: Lista dos Correios, FARO, Algarve, Portugal. I made the acquaintance today of M ^r. João Leite de Vasconcellos in the Bibliotheca Nacional, and there also of Monumenta Linguae Ibericae. How M^rWebster can pass as an honest man what is there said of him I do not know. First he is not the only English enquirer into Basque, and secondly he knows so little of it that, as M^rThomas put to the test, he cannot translate a sentence of easy Basque in the Eskualduna. Vinson has accepted a short article of mine on Capanagas language for, I believe, the next number of the R. de L. are zaranza and homem-zarrão from zar in Basque. Vasconcellos thinks the latter is from arr = male & the z a euphonic link. Are you well? I have nearly finished Moeurs Basques.

Yours truly
E. S. Dodgson.
Lisbon, 30 Jan: 1894.