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BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE 



Schoolcraft (H. R.) — Continued. 



appointed acting superintendent of Indian 

 affairs, and in 1839 chief disbursing agent for 

 the northern department. On liis return from 

 Europe in 1842 he made a tour through western 

 Virginia, Ohio, and Canada. He was appointed 

 by the New York legislature in 1845 a commis- 

 sioner to take the census of the Indians in the 

 State and collect information concerning the 

 Six Nations. After the performance of this 

 task, Congress authorized liim,onMarch3, 1847, 

 to obtain throiigli the Indian bureau reports 

 relating to all the Indian tribes of the country 

 and to collate and edit the information. In this 

 work he spent the remaining years of his life. 

 Through his Influence many laws were enacted 

 for the protection and benefit of tlie Indians. 

 Numerous scientific societies in the United 

 States and Europe elected him to membership, 

 and the ITniversity of Geneva gaA'e him the 

 degree of LL.D. in 1846. He was the author of 

 numerous poems, lectures, and reports on 

 Indian sub.jects, besides thirty-one larger 

 works. Two of liis lectures before the Algic 

 society at Detroit on the "Grammatical Con- 

 struction of the Indian Languages"' were trans- 

 lated into French by Pester S. Duponceau and 

 gained for their author a gold medal from the 

 French institute. ... To the five volumes 

 of Indian researches compiled under the direc- 

 tion of the war department he added a sixtli, 

 containing the post Columbian history of the 

 Indians and of their relations with Europeans 

 (Philadelphia, 1857). He had cidlected material 

 for two additional volumes, but the govern- 

 ment suddenly suspended the publication of 

 the work. — Applelon' s Cyclop, of Am. Biog. 



Scouler {Dr. John). Observations on the 

 indigenous tribes of the N. W. coast of 

 America. By John Scouler, M. D., F. 

 L. S., &c. 



In Royal Geog. Soc. of London, Jour. vol. 11, 

 pp. 215-251, London, 1841. 8°. ((Joological Sur- 

 vey.) 



Vocabulary of the Tlaoquatch (southwest 

 extremity Vancouver Island), about 100 words 

 (obtained from Dr. Tolmie), pp. 242-247. 



On the Indian tribes inhal)iting the 



north-Avest coast of America. By John 

 Scouler, M. D., F. L. S. Communicated 

 by the Ethnological Society. 



In Edinburgli New Pliilosoph. .lour. vol. 41, 

 pp. 168-192, Edinburgh, 1846, 8°. 



Vocabulary (19 words) of the Chikeelis 

 [Chinook Jargon], showing affinities with the 

 Tlaoquatch (from Tolmie) and with the Nootka 

 (from Mozino and Jowitt), p. 176. 



Reprinted in Ethnological Soc. of London, 

 Jour. vol. 1, pp. 228-252, Loudon [1848], 8°. (Con- 

 gress.) 



Linguistic contents as al)ove, ]>. 230. 

 Sebasa : 



Gramniatic treatise See Bancroft (H. H.) 



Seghers (Archbishop Charles John), 

 [Roman Catholic prayers in the Nes- 

 quiat or Nutka language.] (*) 



Manuscript; compiled in 1874. See note to 

 Brabant (A.J.) 



Charles John Seghers, second and fourth 

 Bishop of Vancouver's Island and second Arch- 

 bishop of Oregon City, was born in the ancient 

 city of Ghent, in Belgium, December 20, 1839. 

 "While a mere lad be began to feel that he was 

 called to the priesthood, and, after going 

 through the ordinary course at the theological 

 .seminary of Ghent, lie entered the American 

 College in the University of Louvain, and was 

 ordained, in the cathedral of Mechlin, in 1863, 

 for the American jnission, choosing Victoria, 

 Vancouver's Island, at the instance of Bishop 

 Demers, who was then on a visit to his nati\e 

 country. For eight years he was attached to 

 St. Andrew's Cathedral, Victoria, as assistant, 

 as rector, and vicar-general, being appointed 

 administrator of the diocese in 1871, on the death 

 of Bishop Demers. In 1873 he was con.secrated 

 bishop of the see, the youngest prelate of the 

 American episcopacy at that time. . . . But 

 lie had always a strong predilection for the 

 primitive native Americans. No Catholic 

 missionaries had as yet attempted the conver- 

 sion of the Indians of Alaska, for the reason 

 that while it was under the Russian dominions 

 access had been denied to them. ... In 

 1878 Bishop Seghers made his first visit to 

 Alaska in order to judge what could be done 

 ther(^ and began to study the native language. 



In the meantime Archbishop Blauchet, of 

 Oregon City, having grown old and feeble, 

 Bishoj) Seghers was made his coadjutor, with 

 right of succession, while the see of Vancouver 

 was assumed by Bishop Brondel. No sooner 

 was he installed as coadjutor of Oregou City 

 than Bishop Seghers devoted a year to acquiring 

 practical knowledge of the vast region belong- 

 ing to his province. . . . On the resigna- 

 tion of Archbishop Blanchet, in 1881, Arcli. 

 bishoi) Seghers became the metropolitan in 

 name as well as in fact. But for some time his 

 mind had been set on the conversion of Alaska, 

 and in 1883 ho went to Rome to beg that be 

 might be allowed to take up that work. The see 

 of Vancouver was again vacant, Bishop Brondel 

 having been translated to the new see of Helena. 

 At his urgent request, therefore, the Propa- 

 ganda authorized Archbishoj) Seghers to resign 

 the important see of Oregon City for the 

 humbler and more laborious one of Van- 

 couver. . . . By tlie opening of 1885 he was 

 back once more at Victoria. . . . Arch- 

 bi.shop Seghers, accompanied by two Jesuit 

 fathers, Tosi and Rabaut. and a servant named 

 Frank Fuller, an American, arrived at Chiikat, 

 on the lower coast, and disembarked. Thence 

 they traveled northwesterly along the foot- 

 hills of the coast range until they rt^adied the 

 station of tlie Alaska Trading Company at the 

 headwaters of Stewart's River. Here the Jesuit 



