CHINOOKAN LANGUAGES. 



21 



Deiners (M.) — Continued. 



■' Hecitmposcil ix vocabulary whicli was veiy 

 useful to other inissiouaries. He composed sev- 

 eral canticles, whicli the Indians learned and 

 sang with taste and delight. He also translated 

 all the Christian prayers in the same language. 



'' Such is the origin of tin- Chinook Jargon. 

 whicli eualde<l the twolirat missionaries in the 

 country to do a great deal of good anung the 

 Indians and half-breeds. The invention of the 

 Catholic Ladder, iu April, 18:J9. by Very lie v. 

 Blanchet, and its [oral] explanation in Chinook, 

 had a marvelous success and gave the Catholic 

 missionaries a great superiority and pro))Ouder- 

 anee much envied by the missionaries belong- 

 ing to t)ther denominations. 



" Father Demers, afterwards Bishop of Van- 

 couvers Island, has now goiii' to enjoy the 

 reward of his great labiuirs and apostolic zeal. 

 It would be too bad to lose his Dictionary and 

 other Chinook works. So, Archbishop Rlau- 

 diet, who has himself made a compendium of 

 the Christian doctrine in the same language, has 

 had the good inspiration to get the whole juib- 

 lished with liis corrections and additions." — 

 Pre/act' by Father St. Onge. 



Concerning the preparation and publication 

 of this work, Father St. Onge writes me as fol- 

 lows : 



"Bishop Demers's little book, which was 

 corrected by Archbishop Blanchet, was never 

 printed. The archbishop gave ine the manu- 

 script, which I arranged. I made the spelling 

 uniform and overhauled it completely. I was 

 in the liospital at Montreal at the time, where 

 my bishop had sent me because of ill health. 

 When I got a little stronger, time being hard 

 to pass, I procured a small press, went to work 

 and printed this Chinook book and the Yakania 

 catechism. It was hard work for an invalid, 

 and I made the dictionary as short as possible. 



" The Catholic Ladder, of which I .send you 

 a copy, was, as you suggest, published by 

 Father Lacombe ; but it is only an embellislied 

 edition of the Ladder invented by Archbishop 

 Blanchet in Ai>ril, 1839. The archbishop 

 never printed any Chinook explanation of it, 

 and in my preface to the Chinook Dictionary 

 the word uial should have been included. 



Copies neen : Piiiuies, I'illlng, Trumbull, 

 AVellesley. 



Modeste Demers, It. C. bishop, born in ('an- 

 ada, died iu Vancouver's Island in 1871. He 

 went to the Northwest Territory in 1838 and 

 was engaged in missionary duty among the 

 Indiann until 1847, when he was consecrated 

 bishop of Vancouver's Island. — Appleton'n 

 Cyclop, of Am. liiofj. 



Dickinson ( — ). See Everette (W. E.) 



Dictionary | of | Indian Tongncs | con- 

 taining most of the word.s ami terms | 

 u.sed in the | Tsimpsean, Hydah, A 

 Chinook, \ with their meaniug or equiv- 

 alent I in the | l']ugiisli Language. | 



Dictionary — Continued. 



Published by Hibbeu & Carswell, | 

 Victoria, V. I. | Printed at the office of 

 the Daily Chronicle, | Government 

 Street. | 1862. C^) 



Title 1 1. text pp. 1-15, 16^. 



Hydah vocabulary, pp. 1-3. — Tsimpsean 

 vocabulary, grammatic notes and phrases, jip. 

 3-10. — Chinook Jargon, pp. 11-15. 



Title from Dr. Fran/, Boas from copy in his 

 possession. 



Dictionary | of | Indian tongues. | con- 

 taining I Most of the Words and Terms 

 I used in tile | Tsliiniiisean, Hydah, and 

 Chinook,; with their meaning or e((uiv- 

 alent | iu the | English language. | 



Published by | Hibbeu &. Carswell, 

 i Victoria, V. I. | ]»rinted at the Brit- 

 ish colonist office. | 186r>. 



Cover title verso advertisement, no inside 

 title, text pp. 1-14, aq. IG '. 



Chino(di Jargon- English vocabulary, double 

 iMilumns, lip. 1-4. — Chinook examples (phrases 

 and sentences), p. 5. — Hydah-English vocabu- 

 lary, double columns, ])]>. G-7.— Knglish-T.shim- 

 sliean [sic] vocabulary, verbal conjugations, 

 phrases and sentences, dmible (M)lunins, pp. 8- 

 14. 



Copii's seen : Astor, I'james. 



Dictionary. A | dictionary | of the | 

 Chinook Jargon, | or | Indian Trade 

 Language, | Of the North Pacific Coast. 

 I [Picture of an Indian.] | 



Published by T.N. Hibbeu & Co., | 

 Victoria, B. C. | Ctdouist jtrint — Vic- 

 toria, B. C. [1871 f] 



('over title as above, no inside title, text pp. 

 1-29, advertisement on back cover, 8^. 



Chinook-English, pp. 1-1 8.— English-Chinook, 

 pp. 19-29. — Lord's prayer iu Jarg(«i with inter- 

 linear English translation, p. 29. 



Copies seen : Bancroft. Cornell, Eaines, Trum- 

 bull, Wellasley. 



For the most part a reprint, with omissions, of 

 Gibbs ((i.). Dictionary of the Cliinook Jai-gou. 



Keprinted in : British Columbi.i ; Report of 

 the Hon. H. L. Langvein, C. B. Ministerof Pub- 

 .lic ■ Works, pp. 161-182, Ottawa, 1872, 8'^. 

 ((TBorgetown.) 



Dictionary | of the | Chiuotdv .Jargon, | 

 or, I Indian Trade Language | (»f the 

 I north Pacific coast. | 



Victoria, B. C. : | T. N. Hibbeu & 

 CO., iiublishers, | Government street. 

 [1877 f] 



Cover title : Diction.ary | of the | Chinook 

 Jargon, | or | Indian Trade Language | of the 

 I north Pacific coast. | [Picture.] | 



Victoria, B.C.: I Published by T. N. Hibben 

 .v Co., I Government Street. [1877?] 



