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St. Onge (L.N.) — Continued. 



Blaiicbet, in his self-sacriflcing charity ibr the 

 Indians of his extensive diocese, furnished him 

 with the necessary outfit ; and Trith a nuniher ot 

 -willing tliough unskilled Indians as aiiprenticc 

 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 l)een sent to fight the 

 Yakamas. 



"After four years of labor, he and his devoted 

 companion, Mr. J. E. Boulet (now ordained and 

 stationed among the Tulalip Indians) had the 

 satisfaction to see not only a comfortable resi- 

 dence, but also a neat church, erected, and a 

 fine tract of hind planted with fruit trees, and 

 in a profitable state of cultivation, 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 Blancliet 

 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 Takama 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 countrj-, 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 Hills, 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. Tiie 

 French population of Glens Falls have good 

 cause for feeling very much gratified with the 

 present condition of the aflairs of the parish of 

 St. Alphonse de Liguori, and should receive the 

 hearty congratulations of the entire commu- 

 nity. Father St. Onge, a man of great erudil ion, 

 adevoted servant to the church, and possessing 

 a personality whose geniality and courtesy 

 have won him a place in the hearts of his j)eo- 

 ple, has bj' his faithful application to his pai'ish 

 developed it and brought out all tliat was to 

 inure to its benefit and further advance its inter- 

 ests." — Qlcns Falls (iV. T.) liepuhlican, Jfarch 

 2S, 18H9. 



Father St. Onge remained atGlens Fallsuntil 

 October, 1891, when increasing infirmities com- 

 pelled him to retire permanently from the niin 

 istry. He is now living with his brother, the 

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

 Y. Since bis retirement be has compiled an 

 English-Chinook Jargon dictionary of about six 

 thousand words, and this he intends to supple- 



st. Onge (L. N.) — Continued. 



ment with a corresponding Jargon-English 

 ]>art. He has also begun the preparation of a 

 Yakama dictionary, which he hopes to make 

 much more complete than that of Father Pan- 

 dosy, published in Dr. Shea's Library of Amer- 

 ican linguistics. 



I have adopted the spelling of his name as it 

 appears on the title-page of his work "Yakama 

 Alphabet," etc., though the true spelling, and 

 the one he uses now, is Saintonge — that of a 

 French province in which his ancestors lived 

 and from which four or five families came in 

 169C, all adopting the name. His family name 

 is Payant. 



Salish. [Vocabularies of sonic of the 

 Indian tril)es of Nortliwest Anaerica.] 



Manuscript, 2 vols., 82 pages folio. Bought 

 by the Library of Congress at Washington, at 

 the sale of the library of the late Mr. Geo. Brin- 

 ley, the sale catalogue of which says they came 

 from the library of Dr. John Pickering, to 

 whom, probably, they were presented by Mr. 

 Duponccau. They were presented "to Peter 

 S. Duponceau, Fsq., with J. K. Townshend's 

 respects. Fort Vancouver. Columbia River, 

 September, 1835." 



" Specimens [72 words] of a language 

 spoken by tlie following tribes in Puget Sound, 

 viz : the Kisqually. Poo-yal-awpoo, Tough-no- 

 waw-mish, Lo-qua-mish, Skay-wa-mish, and 

 Toowanne-noo." 



Salish. Vocabulary of the language of the 

 Salish or the Flathead nation occupy- 

 ing the sources of the Columbia. 



Manuscript, in the library of the American 

 Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, Pa. It is 

 a <H>py made by Mr. Duponceau, and forms no. 

 Ixiii of a collection recorded by him in a folio 

 account book, of which it occupies pp. 219-220. 

 It is written four columns to the page, two in 

 English, two in Salishan, and contains about 120 

 words and the numerals 1-10. 

 Salish : 



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Bates (H. W.) 

 Beach (W.W.) 

 Bergh.ius (11.) 

 Boas (F.) 

 Brinton (D. G.) 

 Buschnianu (J. (;. E.) 

 Dawson (G. M.) 

 Drake (S. G.) 

 Eells (M.) 

 Gallatin (A.) 

 Gatschet (A. S.) 

 Gibbs (G.) 

 Haines (E. M.) 

 Keane (A. H.) 

 Latham (R. G.) 

 Platzmann (J.) 

 Powell (J. W.) 

 Prichard (J. C.) 

 Sayce (A. H.) 



