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Página 68 - MONTANA AS IT IS. Being a general description of its Resources, both Mineral and Agricultural; including a complete description of the face of the country, its climate, etc. Illustrated with a Map of the Territory, showing the different Roads and the location of the different Mining Districts.
Página 30 - Hale's Indians of Northwest America and vocabularies of North America, with an introduction (Transactions of the American Ethnological Society, vol.
Página 3 - Pupers on the. History, Antiquities, Arts, Languages, Religions, Traditions and Superstitions | of | the American aborigines; | with | Descriptions of their Domestic Life, Manners, Customs, | Traits, Amusements and Exploits ; | travels and adventures in the Indian country ; | Incidents of Border Warfare; Missionary Relations, etc. | Edited by WW Beach.
Página vi - English were then brought in, and for the first time the French, or rather the Canadian and Missouri patois of the French, was introduced. The principal seat of the company being at Astoria, not only a large addition of Chinook words was made, but a considerable number was taken from the Chihalis, who immediately bordered that tribe on the north, — each owning a portion of Shoalwater Bay. The words adopted from the several languages were...
Página vi - Negro-English-Dutch of Surinam, the Pigeon English of China, and several other mixed tongues, dates back to the fur droguers of the last century. Those mariners whose enterprise in the fifteen years preceding 1800, explored the intricacies of the northwest coast of America, picked up at their general rendezvous, Nootka Sound, various native words useful in barter, and thence transplanted them, with additions from the English, to the shores of Oregon. Even before their day.
Página 24 - History of the Oregon Territory and British North-American Fur Trade : with an Account of the Habits and Customs of the Principal Native Tribes on the Northern Continent. By John Dunn, late of the Hudson's Bay Company, Eight Years a Resident in the Country. London : Edwards and Hughes.
Página ix - A cross-reference is given from the first words of anonymous titles when entered under an author and from the first words of all titles in the Indian languages, whether anonymous or not.
Página 20 - On the affinities between the languages of the northern tribes of the old and new continents. By Lewis Kr. Daa, Esq., of Christiania, Norway. (Read December the 20th.) In Philological Soc. [of London] Trans. 1856, pp. 251-294, London [1857], 8°.
Página 71 - Uraguay, and the Argentine Republic; and of Portuguese Books printed in Brazil. Followed by a Collection of WORKS ON THE ABORIGINAL LANGUAGES OF AMERICA. On sale at the affixed prices, by Triibner & Co., 8 and 60, Paternoster Row.
Página 70 - Comparative vocabularies of the Indian tribes of British Columbia, with a map illustrating distribution (Geological and Natural History Survey of Canada).

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