Yay I finally read Franchere's word list!

[Leanne Riding]

I just felt like sharing that I finally found an online depiction of 
Gabriel Franchere's list of words from between 1811 and 1814, when he 
was at Astoria:

Franchère, Gabriel, 1786-1863. Bibaud, Michel, 1782-1857. "Quelques mots 
de la langue Chinouque ou Tchinouke." Relation d'un voyage à la côte du 
nord-ouest de l'Amérique septentrionale, dans les années 1810, 11, 12, 
13 et 14.  p. 204. 
[http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/cocoon/peel/81/209.html]

This is in french, but to solve any mysteries you might encounter you 
can compare to the word list of Alexander Ross, who was at Astoria at 
the same time as Franchere:

Ross, Alexander. "Chinook Vocabulary."  Ross's Adventures of the first 
settlers on the Oregon or Columbia River, 1810-1813. Cleveland, Ohio, A. 
H. Clark, 1904. 321-329. [http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-
bin/ampage?collId=lhbtn&fileName=th007/lhbtnth007.db&recNum=320&itemLink=r%3Fammem%2Flhbtnbib%3A%40field%28NUMBER%2B%40band%28lhbtn%2Bth007_0015%29%29&
linkText=0]

.... thats a crazy web address isn't it!!!! If it is all garbled you can 
search for Ross's book at the American Memory website. You could also go 
through my links page called "Dusty old jargon tomes from way back." 
[http://timetemple.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=4]

-- Leanne (http://timetemple.com)

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