(fwd) Re: henry sinclair story???

[Mike Cleven]

The following item turned up in sci.lang tonight; thought y'all might find
it interesting in reference to other pidgins; I hadn't heard this one
mentioned before - anyone know the refs and maybe have a copy of Champlain
around for a quote?

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>From: ironmtn at bigfoot.com (Mike Cleven)
>To: ironmtn at bigfoot.com
>Subject: (fwd) Re: henry sinclair story???
>Date: 	Tue, 01 Dec 1998 13:00:59 GMT
>Organization: Iron Mountain Creative Systems
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>On 1 Dec 1998 06:57:01 GMT, in sci.archaeology
>aawest at netnews.CritPath.Org (Anthony West) wrote:
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>By 1534, when Jacques Cartier penetrates as far as Hochelaga
>(Montreal), 1000 km W of Newfoundland and Nova Scotia, he finds *a
>Basque pidgin* firmly in place there: Iroquoians peddling corn and
>pussy to his crew in this trade jargon, that also incorporates
>Portuguese and Franco-Breton elements. (Cartier naively records
>this Basque jabber as "Indian," confounding N American linguists
>centuries later.)
>
>Mike Cleven
>http://members.home.net/ironmtn/
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