CHINOOKAN LANGUAGES. 



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Demers (M.) — Continued. 



" lit'. coiupDsi'il ii vocaUiiliiry uiiicli was very 

 useful t<> otlii^r iiiissiouarios. lie coiupit.st-il sev- 

 eral cantieles, whicli the Indiiiiis Iciirued auil 

 Many Willi lastt^ ami ilelitiht. lie alsi) translated 

 all tlie('hi-iijtiau prayers in the same language. 



•' Sueli is thti xrigin «>(' the Chinook . I argon, 

 which euahletl the twolirst missionaries in the 

 ettuntry to do a great deal of good anung the 

 Indians and halt'hriMids. The invt'niion id' the 

 Catholie Ladder, in April, 18:i'.», by Very Rev. 

 lUauehet, aud its [oral] explanation iutJhinooU, 

 hail a marvelous suioess and gave the {'atholie 

 missionaries agreat superiority ami preponder- 

 anee miudi envied by the missiouaries belong- 

 ing to other denominations. 



■ Father Ueniers, afterwards Hishop of \'an 

 eonvers Island, has now gone to enjoy the 

 reward of his great labours and apostolie zeal. 

 It would be too bad to lose his Dictionary and 

 other (Jhiuook works. So, Archbishop Wan- 

 chet. who has himself made a eompendium of 

 the Christian doi-trine in the same language, has 

 had the good inspiration to get the whole pub- 

 lished with his corrections aud additions." — 

 I'refaee by Father St. Oiuje. 



(Joncerniug the preparation and publication 

 of this work, Father St. Onge writes me as fol- 

 lows : 



■ liisbop Demers's littlf book, which was 

 corrected by Archbishop HIanchet, was never 

 printed. The archbishop gave nie the manu- 

 sci'ipt, which I arranged. I made the spelling 

 uniform and overhauled it completely. I was 

 in the hospital at Montreal at the time, where 

 my bishop had sent me because of ill health. 

 When 1 got a little stronger, time being hard 

 to pass, I procured a small press, went to work 

 aud printed this Chinook book and the Yakania 

 catechism. It was hard work for an invalid, 

 and I made the dictionary as short as i)os8ibIi'. 



'• 'I'he ('atholic Ladder, of which 1 send you 

 a copy, was, as you suggest, published by 

 Father Lacomhe; but it is only an embellished 

 edition of the Ladder invented by Archbishop 

 Klanchet in April, 1839. The archbishop 

 never printed any Chinook explanation of it, 

 and in my preface to the Chinook Dictionary 

 the word oral should have lieeu included. 



Copies seen : Eames, I'illiiig, Trumbull, 

 Wellesley. 



Alodeste Demers, E. C. bishop, boin in Can- 

 ada, died in Vancouver's Islaiul in 1871. He 

 went to the Northwest Territory in 1838 and 

 was engaged in missionary duty among the 

 Indian!» until 1847, when he was consecrated 

 bishop of Vancouver's Island. — Appleton's 

 Vycloji. of Am. Biog. 



Dickinson (— ). See Everette (\V. E.) 



Dictionary | of | Indian Tongues | con- 

 taining most of the words und tenu.s | 

 used in the | Tsinipsean, Hydab, & 

 Chinook, ' with their lueaning or equiv- 

 alent I in the | Euglisii Language. | 



Dictionary — ( 'ontinned. 



l*ul>iished by Hii)beu &. Carswell, | 

 Vietoria, V. I. | Printed at the office of 

 tb<^ Daily Chronirde, | (Joverinnent 

 Street. | 1862. (^) 



Title 1 I. text l>p. 1-l.j, IC^. 



Ilydah vocabulary, pp. 1-3. — Tsinipsean 

 vocabulary, grammatic notes and phrases, \>\i. 

 3-10. — Chinook .Jargon, pp. 11-1.">. 



Title from Dr. Fran/, I'.oas from copy in his 

 posscs.^iou. 



Dictionary | ol" | Indian tongues, | con- 

 taining I Most of the Words and 'IVnns 

 I used in the | Tsliimjisean, Ilydah, and 

 Chinook, witli their meaning or eijniv- 

 aient | in the | English laugnage. | 



Published by | Hibbeu A Carswell, 

 I Victoria, V. 1. | Printrd at the Brit- 

 ish colonist office. | ISO."). 



Cover title verso advertisement, no inside 

 title, text pp. 1-14, sq. l(i '. 



Chinook Jargon-English vocabulary, double 

 columns, i>p. 1—1. — Chinook examples (phrases 

 and sentences), p. .").^ Hydah-Knglish vocabu- 

 lary, double columns, \i\k 0-7. — Knglish-Tshim- 

 shean [sic\ vocabulary, verbal conjugations, 

 ])hrases and sentences, double columns, pp. 8- 

 14. 



Copies seen : Astor, Fames. 



Dictionary. A | dictionary | of the | 

 Chinook Jargon, | or | Indian Trade 

 Language, | Of thf Nortli Pacific Coast. 

 I [Picture of an Indian.] | 



Published by T.N. Hibben &. Co., | 

 Victoria, B. C. | Colonist iirint — Vic- 

 toria, B.C. [1871f] 



Cover title as above, no inside title, text pp. 

 1-29, advertisement on back cover, 8- . 



Chinook-English, pp. 1-18.— Engli.sh-Chinook, 

 pp. 19-29. — Lord's prayer in .Jargon with inter- 

 linear English translation, p. 29. 



Copies seen : Kancrofl. Cornell, Fames, Trum- 

 bull, Wellesley. 



For the most part a reprint, with omissions, of 

 Gribbs (C!.), Dictionary of the Chimiok .Jargon. 



Keprinted in: British Columbia; Report of 

 the Hon. H. L. Langvein, ('. B. Ministerof Pub- 

 lic Works, pp. 161-182, Ottawa, 1872, 8^. 

 ((ieorgctown.) 



Dictionary | of the | Chinook .Jargon, | 

 or, I Indian Trade Language | of the 

 I mnth Pacific coast. | 



Victoria, B. C. : | T. N. Ilibbeu & 

 CO., ])ublishei'8, | Goverinnt^nt street. 

 [1877 f] 



Cover title : Dictionary | of the | Chinook 

 Jargon, | or | Indian Trade Language | of the 

 I north PaciCc coast. | [Picture.] | 



Victoria, B. C. : | Published by T. X. Hibben 

 & Co.. I Government Street. [1877?] 



