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Excerpt from Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon: With Examples of Use in Conversation; Compiled From All Vocabularies, and Greatly Improved by the Addition of Necessary Words Never Before Published Several little books, mostly for traders' use, have been printed in this jargon. A worthy missionary published quite a number of hymns translated from English, in Chinook, which has been the only use of the language in the field of belles-lettres. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.