CTIINOOKAN J.ANGUACfES. 



27 



EellB (M.) — (Jontiiined. 



j;iv(Mi l)y liitii, only iildiiil, ITit ;irn iiHi^d lii-rc' 

 wliioli hIiowx hitw tlm Huiiio laiiiiii;iK<! will vary 

 ill difr<T('Ut loc.alitii'H." 



Thin articlo wan iHDiiod Hfparalcly, also, 

 williDiit. rhaiii;!'. Ami a^aiii us I'oHowh: 



'riu^Twiuiii, ('hciiiiikiiMi, :iii<l Klallaiii 



Iiidi.ui.s of Wiisliiiii^toii (irriloiy. Hy 

 Rev. Myron Im-IIs. 



Ill SiuitliHoiiiaii Iimtitiilioii, Mine. I'aiicrs 

 nilatiiifj toaiitlirtipoloj-y, I'roiii tlii' SiiiitliMouiaii 

 n^jioit for lKH0-'87, pp. f.0.j-(!Hl, WaHliiii^loii, 

 lH8i», 8°. (EaninH, I'illmg.) 



Linguistic (ujiitonts as iiuilcr title next abovi'. 



Aboiijrinal ffcuigrajihid iiiiiiitis in the 



Htiito of WiiHliin^ton. Jiy Myron KcIIh. 



Ill Aiiitjrii'aii AiitlirojioloKist, vol. .1, ji]). Ii7 

 3.''., Wasliiii^'toii, 1892, S'\ (PillinK-) 



Arraii<;(Ml alplialxitically anil ilorivatinns 

 given. The languages reiiresi'iitiMl are: (Miiii- 

 ook, Ciiinook .Jargon, Nez I'erci-, (.'lieiialis, 

 (Uallani, Twaiia, Calispel, Oayuso. Piiyalliii), 

 ami Sjiokaue. 



[ Dii'tionary of flii- CliiiionU .(iir- 



fi-on.] (") 



I'luler (late of .laniiary 9, 189:!, Mr. Eells 

 writes me, lomoriiiiig this work, as follows : 



" I have been at work for the last ten mouths, 

 as I have hall spare time, on a Chinook Jargon- 

 English and Knglish-Chiiiook .Targou Diction- 

 ary, with introduction, i-emarks about the lan- 

 guage, and grammar. 1 am gathering all the 

 words I can liud, whetliei' obsolete or not, from 

 about lifteeii Chinook dictionaries which have 

 been issued since lH:iH with the various spell- 

 ings, marking, as far as I can, all those now in 

 uae; also introducing all which have been 

 ado])ted into tile langiiageof late years from the 

 English and all phrases which can bo used as 

 words. 1 have gone through with the Eiiglish- 

 ('liiiiook part and have nearly three thousand 

 words; have gone through with the (^'hiiiook- 

 English part except .S' and 7' and have about 

 two thousand; I hope to linisli it this winter, 

 though it is much more of a task than I sup- 

 posed it would be when I begun. I hardly 

 expect it will ever be ])iiblislied, but will keep 

 it in manuscript, having done it largely to pre- 

 serve the language in its ))roseiit transitional 

 form, which is quite ditfereiit troiu what it was 

 thirty or forty years ago. 



" I hardly know whether it is worth while for 

 you to mention this, as it is in such an untin- 

 isbed state; still I have even now |iut far more 

 work on it than I have on all my other Chinook 

 Jargon writings." 



[Words, phrases and sentences in 



tlie Chinook Jai'gon.] (") 



Manuscript in possession of its author. 

 KecordiMl in a copy of I'owell's Introduction to 

 the study of Indian languages, second edition, 

 pp. 77-103, 105, 109-111, li:i-l'25, 127, 129, i;i2-188, 

 189-227. Ou p. 228 isa translation of John iii, 10. 



Bells CM.) — (.'ontinticd. 



I Si^rnions in tin- Ciiinook .(ar- 

 gon. J ( ') 



.Manuscript, 2<) pages, 8'^, in jioHsession of its 

 author. 



■.Mioiil Ki years ago, in 187.'>, when I was 

 learning lo talk the language, I wrote foiirser 

 iiions in IlieChinook .largoii which I still liuve. 

 Since that t iine I have jireached a great deal in 

 the language, but do it ho easily that I simply 

 make a few he.'idings in English and talk 

 extempore. On looking over tliesir sermons I 

 tiiid that were I tii use them again I should 

 need to riivise thiMii and to change many 

 expressions so as to make tlioiii clearer." 



Titles and notes of tliesi- three manuscripts 

 furnished me by Mr. Eells. 



Siii' Bulmer (T. S.; 



lie v. Myron Kells was born at Walker's 

 Prairie, Washington Territory, (October 7, 18-..'!; 

 he is the son of lie v. Ciishing Eells, IJ. 1)., and 

 Mrs. M. h\ Eells, who went to Oregon in IS.'iS as 

 missionaries to the Siiokane Indians. He left 

 Walker's Prairie in 1848 on account of the 

 W'hitinuii massacre at W'allawalla and Cayuse 

 war, and went to Salem, Oregon, where ho began 

 to go to school. In 1849 he removed to Forest 

 (rrove.Oregoii; inlHSl to llillsboro,0regon, and 

 in 18.'J7 again to I'Virest (irove, at which places 

 he continued liis school life. In 1802 heremovcd 

 to Wallawalla, spending the time in farming 

 and the wood business until 1808, except the 

 falls, winters, and springs of 1803-04, 18G4-'C5, 

 and 180;')-'G0, when he was at Forest Grovoi in 

 college, graduating I'roiii Pacific ITniversity in 

 1800, in the se.coiid class which ever grailiiated 

 from that institution. In 1808 he went to 

 Hartford, (-'oiiii., to study for the ministry, 

 entering the Hartford Theological Seminary 

 that year, graduating from it in 1871, and being 

 ordained at Hartford, .June 10, 1871, as a (.'ou- 

 gregatioral minister. He went to Bois6 City 

 in October, 1871, under the American Home 

 Missionary Society, organized the First Con- 

 gregational church of that iilace in 1872, anil 

 was pastor of it, until he left in 1874. Mr. Eells 

 was also superintendent of its Sunday school 

 from 1872 to 1874 ;iiid president of the Idaho 

 Uible Society from 1872 to 1874. He went to 

 Skokomish, Washington, in-Juiie, 1874, and has 

 worked as missionary of the American Mis- 

 sionary Association ever since among the Sko- 

 komish orTwana, and Clallam Indians; pastor 

 of Congregational church at Skokomish Keser- 

 vatioii since 1870, and superintendent of Sun- 

 day school at Skokomish since 1882. He 

 organized a Congregational church among the 

 (Jlallanis in 1882, of which he has since been 

 pastor, and another ■iiiiong the whites at Sea- 

 beck in 1880, of which he was jiiisfor until 1880. 

 In 1887 he was chosen trustee of tlie Pacilic 

 University, Oregon ; in 188."j was elected assist- 

 ant .secret;iry .and ill 1889 .secretary of its board 

 of trustees. He delivered the address before 

 theUaiuinu .Sigma society of that institution in 



