CHINOOKAN LANGUAGES. 



33 



Gibbs (G.) — Continued. 



Although it received the critical examination 

 Of that distinguished philologist, and was of 

 use in directing attention to the language, it 

 was deficient in the niiml>tr of words in use, 

 contained niany which did not jiroperl y belong 

 to the Jargon, and did not give the sources 

 from which the words were derived. 



"Mr. Hale had previously given a vocabulary 

 and account of this Jargon in liis' Ethnography 

 of the United States Exploring Expedition,' 

 which was noticed by Mr. Gallatin in tlit! 

 Transactions of the American Ethnological 

 Society, vol. ii. He however fell into some 

 errors in his derivation of the words, chiefly 

 from ignoring the Chehalis element of the Jar- 

 gon, and tlie number of words given by him 

 amounted only to about two hundred and fifty. 



"A copy of Mr. Lionnet's vocabulary having 

 been sent to me with a request to make such 

 corrections as itmight require, I concluded not 

 merely to collate the words contained in this 

 and other printed and manuscript vocabularies, 

 but to ascertain, so far as possible, the lan- 

 guages which had contributed to it, with the 

 original Indian words. This had become the 

 more important as its extended use bj' ditter- 

 ent tribes had led to ethnological errors in the 

 classing together of essentially distinct fami- 

 lies." — Preface. 



Issued also with title-page as follows : 



A I dictionary | of the | Chinook 



Jargon, | or, | trade language of 

 Oregon. | By George Gibbs. | 



New York: | Cramoisy press. | 1863. 



Half-title (Shea's Library of American Lin- 

 guistics. XII.) verso blank 1 1. title verso blank 

 1 1. preface pp. v-xi, bibliography of theChinook 

 Jargon pp. xiii-xiv, half-title of part I verso 

 note 1 1. Chinook-English dictionary pp. 1-29, 

 half-title of part II verso blank 1 1. English- 

 Chinook dictionary pp. 33-43, the Lord's prayer 

 in Jargon p. [44], 8°. 



Copies seen: Astor, Boston Athenaeum, 

 Congress, Dunbar, Harvard, Lenox, Smitli- 

 sonian, Trumbull, Wellesloy. 



Some copies (twenty-five, I believe) were 

 issued in large quarto form with no change of 

 title-page. (Pilling, Smithsonian.) 



See Hale (H.) 



Alphabetical vocabulary | of the 



I Chinook language. | By | George 

 Gibbs. I [Small design, with motto in 

 Irish and Latin.] | 



New York : | Cramoisy press. | 1863. 



Title verso blank 1 1. preface pp. iii-v, orthog- 

 raphy p. vi, bibliography pp. vii-vlii, text pp. 

 9-23, 8°. 



Vocabulary (English-Chinook), pp. 9-20.— 

 Local nomenclature, pp. 21-23. 



Copies seen : Astor, Boston Athenanim, Brit- 

 ish Museum, Congress, Eanies, Harvard, Lenox, 

 Smithsonian, TrumbuU,Welle8ley. 



CHIN 3 



Gibbs (G.) — Continued. 



Some copies contain a loose half-title (Shea's 

 I library of American linguistics. | VIII.) 

 inserted afterwards. (Lenox.) 



There was a small alition (twenty-five 

 copies, I believe) issued in largo quarto form, 

 with title slightly changed, as follows : 



■ Alphabetical vocabulary | of the | 



Chinook language. ( By | George 

 Gibbs. I Published under the auspices 

 of the Smithsonian institution. | 

 New York: | Cramoisy jiress. | 1863. 



Title verso blank 1 1. preface pp. iii-v, 

 orthography p. vi, bibliography pp. vii-viii, 

 text pp. 9-23, 4^. 



Vocabulary alphabetically arranged by 

 Englisli words, double columns, pp. 9-20. — 

 Local nomenclature, pp. 21-23. 



Copies seen: Eames, Lenox, Pilling, Smith- 

 sonian. 



Bibliography of the Chinook Jargon. 



In Gibbs ((!t.), Dictionary of the Chinook 

 Jargon, jip. xiii-xiv, Washington, 1863, 8'^. 



Contains sixteen titular ontriea, chronolog- 

 ically arranged. 



Reprinted in the same work : NewTork, 1863, 

 8° and 4°, titled above. 



Bibliography [of the Chinook lan- 

 guage] . 



In Gibbs (G.), Alphabetical vocabulary of tlie 

 Chinook language, pp. vii-viii. New York, 1863, 

 8° and 4°. 



Contains six titular entries only. 



Chinook Jargon Vocabulary. Com- 

 piled by Geo. Gibbs, Esq. 



Manuscript, 38 pages, 8°, in the library of the 

 Bureau of Ethnology. Recorded in a blank 

 book ; alphabetically arranged by Jargon words. 

 Contains 481 entries. 



George Gibbs, the son of Col. George Gibbs, 

 was born on thel7th of July, 1815, at Sunswick, 

 Long Island, near the village of Halletts Cove, 

 now known as Astoria. At seventeen ht* was 

 taken to Europe, where he remained two years. 

 On his return from Europe he commenced the 

 reading of law, and in 1838 took his degree of 

 bachelor of law at Harvard University. In 1848 

 Mr. Gibbs went overland from St. Louis to 

 Oregon and established himself at Columbia. 

 In 1854 hereceived the appointment of collector 

 of the port of Astoria, which he held during 

 Mr. Fillmore's administration. Later he 

 removed from Oregon to "Washington Territory, 

 and settled upon a ranch a few miles from Fort 

 Steilacoom. Here he had his headijuarters for 

 several years, devoting himself to the study of 

 the Indian languages and to the collection of 

 vocabularies and traditions of the northwest- 

 ern tribes. During a great part of the time 

 ho was attached to the United States Govern- 

 ment Commission in laying the boundary, as 

 the geologist or botanist of the expedition. He 



