CHINOOKAN LANGUAGES. 



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Le Jeune (J. M. R.) — Continued, 

 r ] [Two lines stenographic charac- 

 ters.] I Chinook Hymns. | 



Kamloops. B. C. | 1891 



Cover title verso alphabet and uumerals, no 

 inside title; text in stenographic characters 

 pp. 1-32, alphabet recto of back cover, list of 

 publications by Father Le .Jeuno verso of back 

 cover, 32°. 



Contents as under title next above ; the verso 

 of the front cover in the one edition forms the 

 recto of the back cover in the other. 



Copies seen : Pilling. 



[ ] Elements | of | short hand. | Part 



I- I 



Kamloops. | 1891 



Cover title verso the alpliabet, text pp. [1-32], 

 alphabet and numerals recto of back cover, list 

 of publications by Father Le Jeune verso of 

 back cover, 32°. Inserted by Father Le Jeune 

 as a substitute for the lacking nos. 7-8 of the 

 Kamloops "Wawa, Oct., 1891. 



Contains no Chinookan material. 



Copies seen : Pilling. 



[ ] Chinook | primer. | By which | 



The Native of British Columbia | and 

 any other persons | Speaking the Chi- 

 nook I are taught | to read and write 

 Chinook | in Shorthand | in the Space 

 of a few hours. | Price : 10 Cents. | 



Mimeographed at | St Louis Mis- 

 sion. I Kamloops, B. C. | May, 1892. 



Cover title as above, verso advertisement, no 

 inside title; text pp. 1-8. advertisement recto of 

 back cover, verso list of publications by Father 

 Le Jeune, 16°. 



See p. 52 for facsimile of the cover title. 



Copies seen : Pilling. 



A comparison of the facsimiles of the title- 

 pages of the hymn book and primer with the 

 printed text of the same will show a few differ- 

 ences of punctuation. The printed text is cor- 

 rect; the facsimiles are defective in that re- 

 spect. 



A play I iu Chinook. | Joseph and 



his Brethren. | Act I. | By J. M. R. 

 Lc Jeune O. M. I. 



Kamloops, B. C. | July l''* 1892. 



Cover title (manuscript, in the handwriting 

 of its author), no inside title; text (in Chinook 

 Jargon, stenographic characters) pp. 1-20, 16°. 



Copies seen : Pilling. 

 Chinook | First Reading Book | in- 

 cluding I Chinook Hymns, Syllabary | 

 and Vocabulary. | By 1 J. M. R. Le Jeune 

 O. M. I. I Price: 10 Cents. | [Eight 

 lines stenograj)hic characters.] | 



Kamloops. | 1893 



Title viTso Chinook alph.ibet 1 1. text in 

 stenographic characters, with headings in Eng- 

 lish and Jargon in italics, pp. 1-[18], 16°. 



Le Jeune (J. M. R.) — Continued. 



Hymns, pp. 1-11. — Exerci.ses, pp. 12-15. — 

 Vocabulary, pp. 16-18. 

 Copies seen : Pilling. 



See Durieu (P.) 



Pfere Jean-Mario Raphael Le Jeune was bom 

 at Pleybert Christ, Finist6re, France, April 12, 

 1855, and came to British Columoia as a mis- 

 sionary priest in October, 1879. He made his 

 first acquaintance with the Thompson Indians 

 in June, 1880, and has been among them ever 

 since. He began at once to study their lan- 

 guage and was able to express himself easily 

 iu that language after a few months. When he 

 first came he found about a dozen Indians that 

 knew a few prayers and a little of a catechism 

 in the Thompson language, composed mostly 

 by Right Rev. Bishop Durieu, O. M. I., the 

 present bishop of New Westminster. From 

 1880 to 1882 he traveled only between Talc and 

 Lytton, 57 miles, trying to make acquaintance 

 with as many natives as he could in that dis- 

 trict. Since 1882 he has had to visit also the 

 Nicola Indians, who 8pe.ak the Thompson lan- 

 guage and the Douglas Lake Indians, who 

 are a branch of the Okanagan family, and had 

 occasion to become acquainted with the Okan- 

 agan language, in which he composed and 

 revised most of the prayers they have in use up 

 to the present. Since June 1, 1891, he has also 

 had to deal with the Shushwaj) Indians, and, 

 as the language is similar to that in use by the 

 Indians of Thompson River, ho very soon 

 became familiar with it. 



He tried several years ago to teach the In- 

 dians to read in the English characters, but 

 without avail, and two years ago he undertook 

 to teach them in shorthand, experimenting first 

 upon a young Indian boy who learned the short- 

 hand after a single lesson and began to help 

 him teach the others. The work went on 

 slowly until last winter, when they began to bo 

 interested in it all over the country, and since 

 then they have been learning it with eagerness 

 and teaching it to one another. 



Leland (Charles Godfrey). The Chinook 

 Jargon. 



In St. James Gazette, vol. 17, no. 2529, p. 6, 

 London, July 13, 1888, folio. (Pilling.) 



General remarks concerning the language, 

 with words, phrases, and sentences therein. 



[ ] An international idiom. 



In the Saturday Review, vol. 30, no. 1822, p^i. 

 377-378, London, Sept. 27, 1890, folio. 



A review of Hale (H.), An international 

 idiom, giving a number of examples. 



Lenox: This word following a title or within 

 parentheses after a note indicates that a copy of 

 the work referred to has been seen by the com- 

 piler iu the Lenox Library, New York City. 



[Lionnet (^P^re — ).] Vocabulary | of the 

 I Jargon or trade language ( of Oregon. 



