Letters of Charles Stevens
353
Milwaukie O. T. 10th Dec. 1853
... The streets in Portland are just mud and water, mixed up into a very good batter. Irving has got to be quite an Indian for he can talk their jargon about as well as they can. The Indian language here is nothing but a mess of stuf made up by the Hudson Bay Company out of the Chenook, French and a mess of other lingos put together, and is not fit to use any where. There is but a very little of it, and can soon be learned. They are very indolent, roving bout from place to place, and live most of the time on fish and roots, and lice. ...
Went to Church today and heard Mr. Lyman[1] Preach from Jeeremiah 8th, 22d, he is settled in Portland. ...
(To be continued)
- ↑ Horace Lyman was born in Massachusetts in 1815; came to Oregon in 1849, and in that year taught and preached in a log house at Portland. He founded the First Congregational Church at Portland, 1850. In 1854 he founded La Creole (Rickreall) Academy. Beginning in 1857 he taught at Pacific University, Forest Grove; Scott, Oregon Country, III, 175.
