Ross's Adventures of the first settlers on the Oregon or Columbia River, 1810-1813Ross, Alexander
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Ross's Adventures of the first settlers on the Oregon or Columbia River, 1810-1813
Ross, Alexander
Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel; United States -- Description and travel; West (U.S.) -- Description and travel
To exemplify this part of our subject still further: I was once
travelling along the frontiers of Canada, when I came to a neat little
Indian village, on the bank of the St. Lawrence, containing about three
hundred souls. They had a missionary, a little white chapel, and a
thriving school, and I thought them at the time, as they also considered
themselves, perfectly comfortable and happy. Three years afterwards, a
friend of mine happened to pass through the same village; but in place
of finding them happy as they had been, everything in and about the
place was changed. The inhabitants were less numerous: instead of one
missionary and one church, they had, during the short interval, got
three missionaries, all of different persuasions, and three churches;
but so high did the tide of religious animosity among all parties then
run, that one of the churches had been recently burnt to the ground, by
some of the fanatics themselves; another was despoiled of all its
ornaments, and deserted; and the third remained, a sad memento of the
times, with but few hearers: and in place of one thriving school, there
had been no less {341} three, but with scarcely a scholar in any of
them. Such are the fruits that generally result from the unhallowed
practice of one sect interfering with another.
APPENDIX
CHINOOK VOCABULARY
One Ight
Two Muxt
Three Thlune
Four Lakat
Five Quinum
Six Tuchum
Seven Sinamuxt
Eight Istought-tekin
Nine Quie-est
Ten Eattathlelum
Eleven Eattathlelum equin ight
Twelve Eattathlelum equin muxt
Thirteen Eattathlelum equin thlune
Fourteen Eattathlelum equin lakat
Fifteen Eattathlelum equin quinum
Sixteen Eattathlelum equin tuchum
Seventeen Eattathlelum equin sinamuxt
Eighteen Eattathlelum equin istought-tekin
Nineteen Eattathlelum equin quie-est
Twenty Muxt-thlalth
Twenty-one Muxt-thlalth equin ight
Twenty-two Muxt-thlalth equin muxt
{343} Twenty-three Muxt-thlalth equin thlune
Twenty-four Muxt-thlalth equin lakat
Twenty-five Muxt-thlalth equin quinum
Twenty-six Muxt-thlalth equin tuchum
Twenty-seven Muxt-thlalth equin sinamuxt
Twenty-eight Muxt-thlalth equin istought-tekin
Twenty-nine Muxt-thlalth equin quie-est
Thirty Thlune-thlalth
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