Works
Mengarini's principal contribution to philology is his Selish or Flathead Grammar: Grammatica linguæ Selicæ - published by the Cromoisy Press (New York, 1861) from the third manuscript copy, the first two, laboriously written out by him, having been lost. Originally intended solely for the use of the missionaries, it was written in Latin, and he himself always said the first draft was the most correct.
He also furnished vocabularies of the cognate Salishan languages - of Shw oyelpi (Colville), S'chitzui (Coeur d'Alene) and Salish proper (Flathead) in John Wesley Powell's Contributions to North American Ethnology, I (Washington, 1877), and of the Santa Clara dialect of California in Stephen Powers's Tribes of California, volume III of the same series, published in the same year. He contributed some linguistic notes in the Journal of the Anthropological Institute of New York, I (1871-2).
His personal memoir, The Rocky Mountains, published in the Woodstock Letters for 1888, was dictated a few months before his death.
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