the proof that one of Christ's first apostles. St. Thomas, passed to Nortli America and preached the gospel in Mexico. Borunda wrote also " Frag- mentas para la formacion de un Diccionario Geo- grAfico-etiinologico de las Provincias Mexicaiias," another valualile manuscript which is lost. Al- though all authors agi'ee that Borunda was a great Aztec linguist, some sav that he was ca|)ricious in his ideas, and sometimes very arbitrary in his in- terpretation of ancient hieroglyphic texts.
BOTUKINI-BENADUCCI, LoiTiizo, Spanish
antiquary, b. in Milan, Italy, toward the end of the
17lh centurv: d. in Madrid about 1760. He early
settled in Spain, became a member of the acad-
emy of Valencia, and in 1736 obtained permis-
sion from the court for a prolonged stay in Mexi-
co. There he studied the Aztec language, and
in his familiar intercourse with the natives as well
as with Spanish scientists had occasion to make
profound studies on ancient history and the cus-
toms of the Aztec nation. With great trouble and
a heavy outlay he gathered a large collection of
old Aztec manuscripts, maps, paintings, and other
art objects, when, in 1744, ui some way he aroused
the suspicions of the authorities, his museum was
confiscated, and he was arrested and sent to Spain.
There he was able to justify himself and was ab-
solved, but his collection "was never restored to
him and remained in the royal museum. With
notes that he saved lie wrote " Idea 6 Ensayo de
una Nueva Historia General de la America Sep-
tentrional, f undada en copiosos materiales de figu-
ras, simbolos, caraoteres, cantares y manuscriptos
de autores Indios, nuevamente descubiertos"
(Madrid, 1746). He also wrote "Oratio ad Divi-
nam Sapientiam, Academiie Valentina? Patronaui "
(Valencia, 1750), and "Oratio de Jure Naturali,
Septentrionalium Indorum " (1751).
BOUIUNOT, EUas CoriiPlius, Indian lawyer,
b. in the old Cherokee nation, near Rome, Ga., in
August, 1835; d. at Port Smith, Ark., 27 .Sept.,
1890. His father, a full-blooded Indian, whose
Indian name was Kill-kee-nah, was sent by mis-
sionaries at the age of fifteen to be educated at a
school in Cornwall, Litchfield co.. Conn. While at
this school, Elias Boudinot, of New Jersey, a son
of the first president of the Continental congress,
visited the school at Cornwall, and took quite an
interest in the young Indian and induced him to
adopt his name of Elias Boudinot. John Ridge,
who was afterward one of the chiefs of the Chero-
kees, was his cousin and schoolmate. Gen. Stand
Waite, also a chief of the Cherokees, was a younger
brother of Elias Boudinot. After leaving school
at Cornwall, Boudinot married Harriet Gold, the
youngest daughter of an influential family at that
place, despite the opposition of her family. She
accompanied her husband to the land of the Chero-
kees, in north Georgia, where she died in 1836,
leaving six children, three boys and three girls.
John Hidge also married a New England girl, and
he and the elder Boudinot were the leaders in the
politics of their tribe, and negotiated the treaty of
1835, under which the Cherokees removed from
Georgia to the Indian territory. This treaty gave
rise to two factions, one led by John Ross and the
other by Ridge and Boudinot'. In the contest for
supremacy. Ridge and Boudinot were assassinated,
22 June, '1839. The subject of this notice was
educated in New England, but returned to the
territory in 1853, and was actively engaged in
politics. At the breaking out of the civil war he
and Stand Waite raised a regiment of Indians,
and entered the Confederate army, Stand Waite as
colonel and Boudinot as major, Boudinot was
afterward promoted to the lieutenant-colonelcy of
the regiment, and served as an aide to Gen. Thomas
C. Hindman at the battle of Prairie Grove. He
was delegate from his nation to the 2d and 3d
congresses of the Confederate states. After the war
he was in Washington for many years, acting in
the interest of his tribe, and subsequently removed
to Port Smith, and engaged in the practice of law.
BOULTON, Charles Arkoll, Canadian senator,
b. in Coburg, Ontario, 17 Sept., 1841 : d. in Shell-
mouth. Manitoba. 18 May,1899. After graduation
from the Upper Canada college he served in the
British array, retiring in 1868. He then went to
the Red river, and at the outbreak of the rebellion
under Riel, in 1870, took an active part on the
loyal side, and was one of the Canadian party who
were arrested, imprisoned, and sentenced to death
by the conspirators. He escaped to Ontario, where
he remained until 1880, when he again went to
Manitoba and engaged in farming. In 1885 he
raised a corps of mounted riflemen, known as
Boulton's scouts, and led them through the north-
west rebellion. The next year he published at
Toronto an interesting book entitled " Reminis-
cences of the Northwest Rebellion." In 1889 he
became a Liberal senator in the Dominion parlia-
ment. In 1896 he introduced a measure favoring
the establishment of an international peace tribu-
nal. In the summer of 1897 Senator Boulton ac-
companied Sir Wilfrid Laurier to England as a
member of the military staff sent to represent
Canada at the Queen's diamond jubilee.
BOURKE, John Gregory, author and soldier,
b. in Philadelphia. Pa., 23 June, 1846: d. there, 8
June, 1896. He was graduated at the U. S. mili-
tary academy; entered the cavalry in 1869 as sec-
ond lieutenant, was promoted in 1876. and became
cafrtain in 1882, serving for several years on the
staff of Gen. George Crook, and taking part in nu-
merous Indian campaigns. He was. in 1890. bre-
vetted major for gallantry in the field, and in 1893
detailed for special service in the Latin-American
department of the Columbian exposition, and two
years later was ordered to join his regiment at
Port Ethan Allen. In 1896 he was elected jiresi-
dent of the American Polk-lore Society. In addi-
tion to numerous contributions to scientific pe-
riodicals, he was the author of "The Snake Dance
of the Mouquis" (New York, 1884); "On the
Border with Crook" (1886); "The Medicine Men
of the Af>aches" (1893); and "The Folk Food of
the Rio Grande Valley " (189.5).
BOURNE. George, clergyman, b. in Westbury,
Wiltshire. England. 13 June. 1780: d. in New Vork
city, 20 Nov., 1845. He was educated at Homer-
ton, and in 1802 came to the Ignited States, but
soon rcturne<l to England. In 1804 he again came
to this country, and settled in Baltimore, Md.
After preaching there and elsewhere, he removed
to llarrishurg, Va., where, besides his pastoral la-
bors, he established a print ing-oflice, a county Bible
society, and was active in promoting education
among the people. He learned the art of type-
setting, and comiiosed his tracts and discourses at
the case without manuscript. Mr. Bourne made
himself obnoxious to the people by his antagonism
to slavery and his advocacy of immediate and un-
conditional emancipation. He carried his views
so far as to organize an independent Presbyterian
church of non-slaveholders on 4 July, 1815, in Har-
risbnrg court-house. During that year he wrote
a work entitled "Tlie Book and Slavery irrecon-
cilable," in which the subject was discussed with
vigor. He was compelled to surrender his church
and printing-oflBce, and remove to Germantown,
