CHINOOKAN LANGUAGES. 



65 



St. Onge (L. N.) — Continued. 



slob, Bishop Blanchet, in liia self-sacrificing 

 charity for tlie Indians of his extensive diocese, 

 furnished hini with the necessary outfit; and 

 with a number of willing thougli unskilled 

 Indians as apprentice carpenters, the young 

 missionary set to work to rebuild the St. 

 Joseph's mission, destroyed in 1856 by a party 

 of vandals called the Oregon Volunteers, who 

 had been sent to fight the Yakamas. 



"After four years of labor, he aud his 

 devoted companion, Mr. J. B. Boulet (now 

 ordained and stationed among the Tulalip In- 

 dians) had the satisfaction to see not only a 

 comfortable residence, but also a neat church, 

 erected, and a fine tract of land planted with 

 fruit trees, and in a profitable -state of cultiva- 

 tion, where formerly only ruin and desolation 

 reigned. 



"His health breaking down entirely, he was 

 forced to leave his present and daily increasing 

 congregation of neophites. Wishing to give him 

 the best medical treatment. Bishop Blanchet 

 sent Father St. Onge to his native land with a 

 leave of absence until his health would be 

 restored. During his eighteen months' stay in 

 a hospital he, however, utilized his time by 

 composing and printing two small Indian 

 books, containing rules of grammar, catechism, 

 hymns, and Christian prayers in Yakama and 

 Chinook languages — the former for children, 

 the latter for the use of missionaries on the 

 Pacific coast. 



"By the advice of his physician he then 

 undertook a voyage to Europe, where he spent 

 nearly a year in search of health. Back again 

 to this country, he had charge of a congregation 

 for a couple of years in Vermont ; and now he 

 is the pastor of the two French churches of 

 Glens Falls and Sandy Hill, in the diocese of 

 Albany, New York. 



" Father St. Onge, though a man of uncom- 

 mon physical appearance, stoutly built and six 

 feet and four inches in height, has not yet 

 entirely recovered his health and strength. The 

 French population of Glens Falls have good 

 cause for feeling very much gratified with the 

 present condition of the affairs of the parish of 

 St. AlphonsedeLiguori, and should receive the 

 liearty congratulations of the entire commu- 

 nity. Father St. Onge, a man of great erudition, 

 adevoted servant to the church, and possessing 

 a personality whose geniality and covirtesy 

 have won him a place in the hearts of his peo- 

 ple, has by iiis faithful application to his 

 parish developed it and brought out all that 

 was to inure to its benefit and further advance 

 its interests." — Glens Falls (J\\ T.) Republican, 

 March 2S, 1SS9. 



Father St. Onge remained at Glens Falls until 

 October, 1891, when increasing infirmities com- 

 pelled hiiu to retire permanently from the min- 

 istry. He is now living with his brother, the 

 rector of St. .Jean Baptiste church, in Troy, N. 

 Y. Since his retirement he has compiled an 

 English-Chinook Jargon dictionary of about 

 CHIN 5 



St. Onge (L. N.) — Continued. 



six thousand words, and this he intends to 

 supplement with a corresjionding Jargon-Eng- 

 lish part. He has also begun the preparation 

 of a Yakama dictionary, which ho hopes to 

 make much more complete than that of Father 

 Pandosy, published in Dr. Shea's Library of 

 American linguistics. 



1 have adopted the spelling of his name as it 

 api^ears on the title-page of Bishop Demers's 

 Chinook Jargon dictionary, though the true 

 spelling, and the one be uses now, is Saint- 

 onge — that of a French province in which his 

 ancestors lived and from which four or five 

 families came in 1696, all adopting the name. 

 His family name is Payant. 



Sayce (Archibald Henry). Introduction 

 to the I science of hinguage. | By | A. 

 H. Sayce, | deputy professor of compar- 

 ative philology in the university of 

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

 I [Design.] | 



London: | C. Kegau Paul & co., 1, 

 Paternoster square. | 1880. 



2 vols.: half-title verso blank 1 1. title verso 

 quotation and notice 1 1. preface pp.v-viii, table 

 of contents verso blank 1 1. text jtp. 1-441, colo- 

 phon verso blank 1 1. ; half-title verso blank 1 1. 

 title verso quotation and notice 1 1. table of con- 

 tents verso blank 1 1. text pp. 1-352, selected list 

 of works pp. 353-363, index pp. 365-421, 12°. 



A classification of American languages (vol. 

 2, pp. 57-64) includes the Chinook, p. 60. 

 Copies seen .• Bureau of Ethnology, Eames. 



Schoolcraft (Henry Rowe). Historical | 



and I statistical information, | respect- 

 ing the I history, condition and jiros- 

 pects I of the | Indian tribes of the 

 United States : | collected and prepared 

 under the direction | of the | bureau 

 of Indian affairs, | per act of Congress 

 of March 3d, 1847, | by Henry E. School- 

 craft, LL.D. i Illustrated by S. Eastman, 

 capt. U. S. A. I Published by Authority 

 of Congress. | Part I [-VI]. | 



Philadelphia: 1 Lippincott,Granibo«fe 

 company, | (successors to Grigg, Elliot 

 &CO.) I 1851 [-1857]. 



Engraved title : [Engr.iving.] | Historical | 

 and I statistical information | respecting the | 

 history, condition and jirospects 1 of the [ Indian 

 tribes of the United States: | Collected and pre 

 l)ared under the | direction of the bureau of 

 Indian affairs, per act of Congress | of March 

 3"! 1847 I by Henry R.SchoolcraftL.L.D. | Illus. 

 trated by | S. Eastman, capt. U. S. army. | [Coat 

 of arms.] | Published by authority of Con- 

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Philadelphia: | Lippincott, Grambo & co. 



6 vols. 4°. Beginning with vol. 2 the words 

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