34 



BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE 



Gibbs (G.) — Continued. 



was also attached as geologist to the survey of 

 a railroad route to the Pacific, under Major 

 Stevens. In 1857 he was appointed to the 

 northwest boundary survey under Mr. Archi- 

 bald Campbell, as commissioner. In 1860 Mr. 

 Gibbs returned to New York, and in 1861 was 

 on duty in Washington in guarding the Capital. 

 Later he resided in Washington, being mainly 

 employed in the Hudson Bay Claims Commis- 

 sion, to which he was secretary. He was also 

 engaged in the arrangement of a large mass of 

 manu.script bearing upon the ethnology and 

 philologyof the American Indians. His services 

 were availed of by the Smithsonian Institution 

 to superintend its labors in this field, and to his 

 energy and complete knowledge of the .subject 

 it greatly owes its success in this branch of the 

 service. The valuable and laborious .service 

 which he rendered to the Institution was 

 entirelygratuitous, andin his death that estab- 

 lishment as well as the cause of science lost an 

 ardent friend and an important contributor to 

 its advancement. In 1871 Mr. Gibbs married 

 his cousin, Miss Mary K. Gibbs, of Newport, 

 K. I., and removed to New Haven, where he 

 died on the !)th of April, 1873. 



[Gill (John Kaye).] Dictionary | of the 



I Chinook Jargon | with examples of | 



Use in Conversation. | (Compiled from 



all vocabularies, and greatly improved 



I by the addition of necessary words 



I never before published.) | Ninth 



edition. | 



Portland, Oregon: | published by J. 

 K. Gill & CO. I 93 First Street. [1882.] 



Cover title : A complete | dictionary | of the 

 I Chinook Jargon. | English-Chinook and 

 Chinook-English. | Ninth edition. | Revised, 

 Corrected and Enlarged. | 



Portland, Oregon. | J. K. Gill & co., publish- 

 ers. I 1882. I Himes the printer. 



Cover title, title verso blank 1 1. preface pp. 

 3-4, text pp. 5-62, 18°. 



English and Chinook, double columns, 

 alphabetically arranged, pp. 5-33.— Numerals 

 1-12, 20, 30, 100, 1000, p. 33. -Chinook and Eng- 

 lish, alphabetically arranged, pp. 34-57.— Con- 

 versations, pp. 58-60. — The Lord's prayer, with 

 interlinear English translation, pp. 61-62. 



Copies teen : Eames, Pilling. 



In the preparation of this dictionary Mr. 

 Gill had, he informs me, the assistance of Rev. 

 W. C. Chaltin. An eighth edition was pub- 

 lished in 1878, in continuation of those issued 

 by the firm of S. J. McCormick (see Blanchet 

 (F. N.), whose stock was purchased by the firm 

 of which Mr. Gill was a member. Of th.'>fc 

 edition I have been luiable to locate a copy. 



"The first attempt at publication of the 

 trappers' and traders' Indian Jargon in use 

 among the coast and interior tribes of the 

 Northwest was made in 1825, by a sailor [Jolin 

 K. Jewitt] who was captured from the ship 



Gill (J.K.) — Continued. 



Boston, which was surprised by the Indians at 

 Nootka Sound, her captain and crew murdered, 

 the sailor who issued his adventures under 

 tlie title, 'The Captive in Nootka' and later 

 the ' Traders' Dictionary,' being the only sur- 

 vivor. 



" Several little books, mostly for traders' use, 

 have been printed in this Jargon. A worthy 

 mi.ssionary [Rev. Myron Eells] publi.shed quite 

 a number of hymns translated from English, in 

 Cliinook, which has been the only use of the 

 language iu the field of belles-lettres. 



" The language of the native Indians is sel- 

 doirt heard. The progressive English is forcing 

 it.s way even into the lodges of the most savage 

 tribes; and many of the original Indian dialects 

 of the coast, of which Chinook was the most 

 important, have disappeared entirely, with the 

 nations that spoke them. 



" Of the ancient languages of the Chiuooks, 

 but two hundred words are given in the i)re8ent 

 dictionary, the remainder being words from 

 other coast tribes, Yakimas, Wascos, Nez 

 Perce.s, and other tongues." — Preface. 



Mr. Gills statement in regard to the "first 

 attempt at publication of the trappers' and 

 traders' Indian Jargon," quoted above, needs a 

 word of correction. Jewitt's work, first issued 

 under the title of "A journal kept at Nootka 

 Sound," Boston, 1807, contains no linguistic 

 material. Later it was published with thetitle 

 "A narrative of the adventures and sufi'erings 

 of John R. Jewitt," Middletown, Connecticut, 

 1815, .and went through a number of edititms. 

 Tills work does not contain a Jargon vocabu- 

 lary at all, but one in the Nootka language 

 ("Wakashan family). The work entitled " The 

 Captive in Nootka" is not by Jewitt, but is a. 

 compilation from his work by S. G. Goodrich 

 (Peter Parley), and was first issued, so far as I 

 know, Philadelphia, 1832. It contains a few 

 Nootka words and phrases passim, but no 

 vocabulary. Of the Traders' Dictionary, by 

 Jewitt, of which Mr. Gill speaks, I have been 

 unable to trace a single copy. 



[ ] Dictionary | of the | Chinook 



Jargon | with examples of | Its Use in 

 Conversation. ] Compiled from all exist- 

 ing vocabularies, and greatly | im- 

 proved by the addition of necessary | 

 words never before published. | Tenth 

 edition. | 



Portland, Oregon: | published by J. 

 K. Gill «fc CO. I 1884. 



Cover title: Gill's | complete dictionary | of 

 the I Chinook Jargon. | English-Chinook and 

 Chinook-English. | Tenth edition, | Revised, 

 (Corrected and Enlarged. | 



Portland, Oregon: | J. K. Gill & co., publish- 

 ers. I 1884. 



Cover title, title verso name of i)rinter 1 1. 

 preface signed J. K. Gill & co. pp. 5-6, text pp. 

 7-60, 18°. 



