CHINOOKAN LANGUAGES. 



19 



Cox (R. ) — Continupcl. 



1 1. contents pp. v-viii; text i>p. 1-393, appendix 

 pp. 395-400, 8^. 



Numerals 1-12, 20, and a short voeabulary (" 

 words and 3 phraaes) in Chinook Jargon, vol. 2, 

 p. 134. 



Gojnes seen : Astor, Boston Athenieum, Brit- 

 ish Museum, Congress. 



Sabin's Dictionary, no. 17267, mentions a 

 "second edition, London, 1832, 8°'. 



The I Columbia river; | or, | scenes 



and adventures | during | a residence 

 of six years on the western | side of the 

 Rocky mountains | amou<>- | various 

 tribes of Indians | hitherto unknown; 



I together witli | a journey across the 

 American continent. | Hy Ro.ss Cox. | 

 In two volumes. | Vol. I[-II]. | Third 

 edition. | 



London: | Henry Colbtirn and Rich- 

 ard Bentley. | New Burlington street. 



I 1832. 



2 vols.: title verso names of printers 1 1. 

 dedication verso blank 1 1. preface pp. v-vi, 

 introduction pp. vii-xvi, contents pp. xvii-xx. 

 text pp. 1-333; title verso names of printers 1 1. 

 contents pp. iii-vi, text pp. 1-350, 8^. 



Linguistic contents as under title next 

 above, vol. 2, pp. 117-118. 



Copies seen : Greely. 



Adventures | on the | Columbia 



river, | including | the narrative of a 

 residence | of six years on the western 

 side of I the Rocky mountains, | among 

 I various tribes of Indians | hitherto 

 unknown: | together with | a journey 

 across the American continent. | By 

 Ross Cox. I 



New York : | printed and published 

 by J. & J. Harper, 82 Cliff-street. | And 

 sold by the princijial booksellers 

 throughout the United States. | 1832. 



Title verso blank 1 1. preface pp. v-vi, intro- 

 duction pp. vii-s, contents pp. xi-xv, text pp. 

 25-331, appendix pp. 333-335, 8'"^ 



Linguistic contents as under titles above, 

 pp. 225-226. 



Gojnes seen : Bancroft, Congress, Harvard, 

 Mallet, Pilling. 



Crane (Agnes). The Chinook Jargon. 



In the Brighton Herald, no. 4883, p. 4, 

 Brighton. England, July 12, 1890, folio. (Pilling.) 



A review of Hale (H.), Manual of the Oregon 

 trade language. It occupies a column and a 

 half of the Herald and contains a number of 

 Jargon words with their derivations, a brief 



Crane (A.) — ^ Continued. 



outline of phonetics and grammar of the lan- 

 guage, and one verse of a song, with English 

 translation. 



Curtin (Jeremiah). [Words, phrases, 

 and sentences in the Wasko language.] 



Manuscript, pp. 77-228, 4^. in the library of 

 the Bureau of Etlin(d(>gy. Recorded at Warm 

 Spring. Oregon, in 1884. in a copy of Powell's 

 Introduction to the Study of Indian Languages, 

 second edition. The Bureau alphabet is used. 



Of the schedules, nos. 1-4,6-8.16, 18-29 are 

 well filled ; nos. 5, 10, 12-14, and 17 partially so ; 

 and nos. 9, 11, 15, and 30 have no entries. 



Jeremiah Curtin was liorn in Milwaukee, 

 "Wis., about 1835. Ho had little education in 

 childhood, but at the age of tweiit \- or twenty- 

 one prepared himself to enter Phillips Exeter 

 Academy, made extraordinary jjrogress, and 

 soon entered Harvard College, where he was 

 graduated in 1863. By this time he hadliecome 

 noted among his classmates and acquaintances 

 for his wonderful facility asalinguist. Onleav- 

 ing college lie liad aciiuired a good knowledge 

 of Frencli, .Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, 

 Koumanian, Dutch. Danish, Swedish. Icelandic, 

 Gothic, German, and Finnish, besides Greek and 

 Latin. He Iiad also made considerable progress 

 in Hebrew, Persian, and Sanskrit, and was 

 beginning to speak Russian. Wli>in Admiral 

 Lissofsky's fleet visited this country, in 1864, 

 Curtin became acquainted with the otlicersand 

 accompanied the expedition on its return to 

 Russia. In St. Petersburg he obtained employ- 

 ment as <i translator of polyglot telegraphic 

 dispatches, but he was presently appointed by 

 Mr. Seward to the office of secretary of the 

 United States legation, and he held this place 

 till 1868. During this period he became familiar 

 with the Polish, Bohemian, Lithuanian, 

 Lettisli, and Hungarian languages, and made a 

 beginning in Turkish. From 1868 till 1877 he 

 traveled in eastern Europe and in Asia, appar- 

 ently in the service of the Russian government. 

 In 1873, at the celebration at Prague of tlie 500th 

 anniversary of the birth of John Huss, he 

 delivered the oration, speaking with great elo- 

 quence in the Bohemian language. During his 

 travels in the Danulie country be learned to 

 speak Slavonian, Croatian, Servian, and Bulga- 

 rian. He lived for some time in the Caucasus, 

 where he learned Mingrelian, Abkasian, and 

 Armenian. At the beginning of the Russo- 

 Turkish war in 1877, he left the Russian domin- 

 ions, and, after a year in London, returned 1 1 

 his native country. Since then he has been 

 studying the languages of the American 

 Indians and has made valuable researches 

 under the auspices of Maj. John W. Powell and 

 the Bureau of Ethnology. He is said to be 

 accjuainted with more than fifty languages.^ 

 Appleton's Cyclop, of Am. Biog. 



