CHINOOKAN LANGUAGES. 



27 



Eells (M.) — Continued. 



given liy liim, only abovit 470 are used here' 

 which shows how the same laui;;uage will vary 

 in different localities." 



This article was issued separately, also, 

 without change. And again as follows : 



TheTwaua, Clicmakum, andKlallam 



Indians of Wasliiugtoii ti^nitoiy. By 

 Rev. Myron Eells. 



In Smithsonian Institution, Misc. Papers 

 relating to anthropology, from the Smithsonian 

 report for 188C-'87, pp. 60.J-G81, Washington, 

 1889,8°. (Eames, Pilling.) 



Linguistic contents as under title next above. 



Aboi'io;inal geographic names in the 



state of Washington. By Myron Eells. 



In American Anthropologist, vol. r>, pp. 27- 

 35, "Washington, 1892, 8°. (Pilling.) 



Arranged alphabetically and derivations 

 given. The languages represented are: Chin- 

 ook, Chinook Jargon, Nez Perce, (Jhehalis, 

 Clallam, Twana, Calispel, Cayuse. Puyallup, 

 and Spokane. 



[Dictionary of the Chinook Jar- 



gou.] ' n 



Under date of January 9, 1893. Mr. Eells 

 writes me, concerning this work, as follows : 



" I have been at work for the last ten months, 

 as I have had spare time, on aCliinook Jargon- 

 Englisli and English-Chinook Jargon Dictioji- 

 ary, with introduction, remarks about the lan- 

 guage, and grammar. I am gathering all the 

 words I can find, whether obsolete or not, from 

 about iifteen Chinook dictionaries which have 

 been issued since 1838 with the various spell- 

 ings, marking, as far as I can, all those now in 

 use; also introducing all which have been 

 adopted into the language of late years from the 

 English and all phrases which can be used as 

 words. I have gone through witli the English- 

 Chinook part and have nearly three thousand 

 words; have gone through with the Chinook- 

 English part except S and T and have about 

 two thousand ; I hope to finish it this winter, 

 though it is much more of a task than I sup- 

 posed it would be when I began. I liardly 

 expect it will ever be published, but will keep 

 it in manuscript, having done it largely to pre- 

 serve the language in its present transitional 

 form, which is quite ditt'erent from what it was 

 thirty or forty years ago. 



" I hardly know whether it is worth while for 

 you to mention this, as it is in such an unfin- 

 ished state; still I have even now put far more 

 work on it than I have on all my other Chinook 

 Jargon writings." 



[Words, phrases and sentences in 



the Chinook Jargon.] ( " ) 



Manuscript in possession of its author. 

 Recorded in a copy of Powell's Introduction to 

 the stiuly of Indian languages, second edition, 

 pp. 77-103, 105, 109-111, 113-125, 127, 129, 132-188. 

 18&-227. On p. 228 isa translation of John iii, 10. 



Eells (M.) — Continned. 

 [Sermons in the Chinook Jar- 

 gon.] o 



Manuscript. 20 pages, 8°, in possession of its 

 author. 



"About 10 years ago, in 1875, wlien I was 

 learning to t;ilk tlie language, I wrote four.ser 

 mons in the Chinook Jargon whi(^h I still have. 

 Since that tinu) I have preached a great deal in 

 the language, but do it so easily that I simply 

 make a few headings in Englisli and talk 

 extempore. On looking over these sermons I 

 find that wore I to use them again I should 

 need to revise them ami to change many 

 expressions so as to make them clearer." 



Titles and notes of these three manuscripts 

 furnished me by Mr. Eells. 



See Bulmer (T. S.) 



Rev. Myron Eells was born at "Walker's 

 Prairie, AVashington Territory, October 7, 18-i3; 

 he is the son of Rev. Cashing Kells, D. D., and 

 Mrs. M. r. Eells. who went to Oregon in 1838 as 

 missionaries to the Spokane Indians. He left 

 AValker's Prairie in 1848 on account of the 

 Whitman massacre at A\'"allawalla aiul Cayuse 

 war, and went to Salem, Oregon, where he began 

 to go to school. In 1849 he removed to Forest 

 Grove,Oregon ; in 1851 to Ilillsboro, Oregon, and 

 in 18.57 again to Forest Grove, at which places 

 he continued his school life. In 18C2 he removed 

 to Wallawalla, spending the time in farming 

 and the wood business until 1808, except the 

 falls, winters, and springs of 18G3-'64, 1804-05, 

 and 1805-00, when lie A\a8 at Forest Grovet in 

 college, graduating from Pacific University in 

 1800, in the second class which ever graduated 

 from that institution. In 1868 he went -to 

 Hartford, Conn., to study for the ministry, 

 entering the Hartford Theological Seminary 

 that vear, graduating from it in 1871, and being 

 ordained at Hartford, .June 15, 1871, as a Con- 

 gregatioral minister. He went to Boisfi City 

 in October, 1871, under the American Home 

 Missionary .Society, organized the First Con- 

 gregational church of that place in 1872, and 

 was pastor of it until he left in 1874. Mr. Eells 

 was also superintendent of its Sunday school 

 from 1872 to 1874 and j)resident of the Idaho 

 Bible Society from 1872 to 1874. He went to 

 Skokomish, "Washington, in June, 1874, and h.as 

 worked as missionary of the American Mis- 

 sionary Association ever since among the Sko- 

 komish or Twana, and Clallam Indians ; p.astor 

 of C(mgregational church at Skokomish Reser- 

 vation since 1876, and superintendent of Sun- 

 day school at Skokomish since 1882. Ho 

 organized a Congregational church among the 

 Clallams in 1882, of which he has since been 

 pastor, and another among the whites at Sea- 

 beck in 1880, of wliich he was pastor until 1886. 

 In 1887 he was chosen trustee of the Pacific 

 University, Oregon ; in 1885 was elected as.sist- 

 ant secretary and in 1889 socret.-irv of its board 

 of trustees. He delivered the address before 

 the Gamma Sigma society of that institution in 



