SALISHAN LANGUAGES. 



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Eells(M.)— Continued. 



"Tliia Chchalia tribe, lies next south of tlw 

 Twanas. I have not lived with them, but hav<( 

 obtained my information from Chehalis 

 Indians who have at times lived among the 

 Twanas, namelj% from Marion Davis, assisted 

 by l!ig Sam, the foriner an educated young 

 man, the latter an uneducated old one." 



The Twana language. By Rev. M. 



Eells. (*) 



Manuscript, pp. l-2.'?2, 8°, in possession of its 

 author, who has kindly furnished mo a descrip- 

 tion of it under date of August 12, 1892, as fol- 

 lows : 



Volume I. Part 1, Grammar. Tart 2, Twana- 

 English Dictionary, 151 pages, 8°. Vol. II. 

 Part 3, Englisb-Twaua Dictionary. Part 4, 

 Hymna and prayers (not published anywhere), 

 84 pages, 8°. 



"Some years ago I thought of learning this 

 language, and proceeded far enough to acquire 

 one or two hundred words and a few sentences 

 and obtain a little idea of the construction. The 

 material lay in a box of oUl papers until lately, 

 and I liavo thought it worth while to enlarge 

 it and put it into good shape, not for publica- 

 tion, but for preservation in my library. The 

 larger number of the nouns are the same as 

 those I furnished Major Powell in a copy of his 

 Introduction to the study of Indian languages 

 some years ago." 



An oration in the Twana language. 



In Bulmer (T.), Part II of Buhner's .-ippen- 

 di.'c to the Ghee-Chinook Grammar and Dic- 

 tionary, 11. 20-22. (Manuscript.) 



Oration in English, 1. 20.— The same in Twana 

 with interlinear Engli.sh translation, 11. 21-22. 



A tradition in the Twana language. 



In Bulmer (T. S.), Part II of Bulmer's 

 Appendix to the Chee-Chiuook Grammar and 

 Dictionary, U. 23-25. (Manuscript.) 



Tradition in Twana with interlinear English 

 translation, 1. 23. — Tlie same in English, 11. 24- 

 2,'-.. 



Copy of a sermon preached to the 



Indians of Walla- Walla. 



In Bulmer (T. S.), Christian prayers in 

 Chinook, 11.39-46. (Manuscript.) 



"Of the 97 words used 46 are of Chinook 

 origin, 17 Nootka, 3 Salish, 23 English, 2 Jar- 

 gon, and 6 in French." 



These three manuscripts are in possession of 

 Dr. Bulmer, Salt Lake City, Utah. 



Eev. Myron Eells was born at Walker's 

 Prairie, Washington Territory, October 7, 1843; 

 he is the son of Kev. Gushing Eells, D. D., and 

 Mrs. M. F. Eells, who went to Oregon in 1838 as 

 missionaries to the Spokau Indians. lie left 

 Walkers Prairie in 1848 on accountof the Whit- 

 man massacre at Wallawalla and Cayuse war, 

 and went to Salem, Oregon, where he began to 

 go to school. In 1849 he moved to Forest Grove, 



Eells (M.) — Continued. 



Oregon; in 1851 to Ilillsbiro, On^gon, and in 

 1857 again to Forest Grove, at which places lie 

 continued his schocd life. In 18G2 he moved to 

 Wallawalla, spending the time in farming and 

 the wood business until 1808, except the falls, 

 winters, and springs of 1863-'64, 1864-'65, and 

 1865-'60, when he was at Forest Grove in college, 

 graduating from Pacitic University in 1860, in 

 the second class which ever gr.iduated from 

 that institution. In 1868 ho went to Hartford, 

 Conn., to study for tho ministry, entering the 

 Hartford Tiieological Seminary that year, grad- 

 uating from it in 1871, and being ordained nt 

 Hartford, June 15, 1871, as a Congregational 

 minister. He went to Boise City in October, 

 1871, under the American Homo Missionary 

 Society, organized the First Congregational 

 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 president of the Idaho Bible Society 

 from 1872 to 1874. He went to Skokomish, 

 Washington, in June, 1874, and has worked as 

 missionary of the American Missionary Asso- 

 ciation ever since among the Skokomish or 

 Twauaaud Klallam Indians, pastor of Congre- 

 gational church at Skokomish Reservation since 

 1876, and superintemfent of Sabbatli school at 

 Skokomish since 1882. He organized a Congre- 

 gational church among tlie Klalams in 1882, of 

 which he has since been pastor, and another 

 among the whites at Seabcck iu 1880, of whicli 

 he was pastor until 1886. Iu 1887 he was dioseu 

 trustee of the Pacific University, Oregon; in 

 1885 was elected assistant secretary aud in 1889 

 secretary of its board of trustees. Hedelivered 

 the address before the Gamma Sigma society 

 of that institution in 1876, before the alumni in 

 1890, aud preached the baccalaureate sermon iu 

 1886. In 1888 he was chosen trustee of Whit- 

 man College, Washington, delivered tlie com- 

 mencement address there iu 1888 and received 

 the degree of D.D. from that institution in 

 1890. In 1888 he was elected its financial secre- 

 tary and in 1891 was .asked to become president 

 of the institution, but declined Ixith. 



He was elected an associate member of the 

 Victoria Institute of London in 1881, and a 

 corresponding member of tho Anthropological 

 Societj' at Washington in 1885, to both of which 

 societies he has furnished pajiers which have 

 been published by them. He was also elected 

 vice-president of tho Whitman Historical Soci- 

 ety at Wallawalla in 1889. From 1874 to 1886 

 he was clerk of the Congregational Association 

 of Oregon and Washington. 



Mr. Eellsat present (1893) holds the position 

 of Superintendent of tho Department of Etli- 

 nology for tho State of Washington at the 

 World's Columbiau Exi)Osition. 



Ellis (Dr. —). See Good (J. B. ) 

 Etshiit thlu sitskai [Spokan]. See 

 Walker (E.) and Eells (C.) 



