A voyage round the world: With a history of the Oregon mission…
[&c.] By Gustavus Hines. 1850. Buffalo: George H. Derby & Co.
Page 31: Mr. D[aniel] Lee and Mr. Perkins learned the Chenook language ‘as spoken in the vicinity of Vancouver’, Washington.
Page 167: ‘Our motley party proceeded in high glee, alternately conversing in the English, Chenook, and Walla-Walla languages, and remarking upon whatever presented itself before us. The little man on the hias tenas (very little) mule, was the subject of much amusement with the Indians…’
..an interesting title…can not wait to read this.