Chinook literacy in surprising places

[David Robertson]

Compare this, from "The Paper that Relates" translated by Moise M. Johnnie,
text by William R. O'Hara, a book about Father Morice's newspaper in
Carrier syllabics (it quotes from Morice's "Au pays de l'ours noir"):

"I receive letters from throughout the district, even from the Sekanis, who
do not only speak a different language, but who were never given lessons in
the syllabary.  The traveller cannot make a half days journey in the forest
without finding some inscription made with charcoal or pencil on the trunk
of a tree.  An Indian leaves an account of his adventures, gives directions
to those following or tells what his plans are.  The ephithets are
sometimes very curious."

--Dave R

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