Badlam 1891 copied from Hibben?

[Francisc Czobor]

David Robertson <ddr11 at COLUMBIA.EDU> wrote:  Hi,

A book I hadn't heard of before turned up in a WorldCat search. 

This one isn't in Sam Johnson's great bibliography (1978), nor in 
Reinecke's (1975), not in Pilling (1893). Less-specialized bibs might have 
it, but all I've photocopied from Smith, Soliday/Decker, or Lowther are the 
bits about Le Jeune's shorthand. So who knows. 

The book is Alexander Badlam (1891), "The Wonders of Alaska" [3rd edition, 
revised], self-published in San Francisco. The copy I'm looking at was 
donated by William Heryet, "Engineer - Soldier - Reader," to UBC in 1964. 
Its original owner was S.E. (or A.E.?) Baltin (?) M.D., who autographed it 
on May 28, 1894. 

Chapter XI is "The Chinook Jargon," pages 141-144. It's very superficial 
and refers only to Hibben's dictionary as an authority. No reference is 
made, for example, to any actual speakers or remembered conversations. A 
bit of "selected" vocabulary appears, maybe from Hibben. Here are a few 
examples in Badlam's spelling, in case anyone here wants to check:

Sugar -- le sook; shugae
Fork -- la poosshet
Dollar -- dolla or tahla
Deer -- mowitsh 
Language -- lk lang
Bear (black) -- chet-woof; its-woot
...
  These words look to be taken from the third edition of Hibben's dictionary (1889), Part II - English-Chinook. In this edition appeared some typos compared to the first two editions. Badlam took over these typos and added his own spelling errors:
   
  English         Hibben               Hibben           Hibben          Badlam
                   1st edition           2nd edition      3rd edition  
                     (undated)             (1877)            (1889)           (1891)
 
  Sugar           le sook;            le sook;         le sook;           le sook; 
                    shugah;           shugah;         shughae;         shugae
                     shukwa            shukwa          shukwa
  Fork             la pooshet        la pooshet      la pooshet       la poosshet
Dollar           dolla or tahla    dolla or tahla   dolla or tahla    dolla or tahla
Deer             mowitsh           mowitsh         mowitsh          mowitsh 
Language      la lang             la lang            lk lang            lk lang
Bear (black)  chet-woot;        chet-woot;      chet-woot;       chet-woof; 
                      its-woot           itswoot           its-woot           its-woot
   

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