St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-08

learn polyglOt lingo called ''chinOok"
"a sort Of pigeon Indian-and you will
be constantly surprised to see we'll
dressed passenger step from a palace
car and converse for moment or two
with the redskins in curious nasal
lingo to satisfy his curiosity as to who
and what the braves are and what they
are doing. Cruelty. craftiness, contempt
and british ignorance are stamped in
these Indians faces as in no others /
ever saw-not even in the countenances
OF ships crew of Lascars [ once saw
and afterward thought were the most
blOod-thirSty. cat-like wretches 1 had
ever seen. Yet, purring and tripping
among the braves and squaws, you will
often see pair or trio, or perhaps many
more of as pretty dusky-faced, dimpled,
plump and coquettish little maidens as
any mother ever loved in the homes Of
us pale-faces.
THE MINING CAMPS.
In the Rocky mountains and the three
Sky-piercing chains lying parallel with
them the scenery claimed all attention;
and, indeed, little else was to be seen
except occasional herds of deer and aD-
telOpe. Here l would not advise any
one to walk. L kept to the cars~and do
not remember being advised OH this
particular subject by any one acquainted
with the country; but the talk and the
evidence OF ones eyes were all of pot
and skin hunters, of tramping coal and
gold and silver miners. of camps and
bands OF Chinese railroad laborers. And
then the loneliness and the distances
between stations and hOusesi L would
much prefer walking in New Jersey
even to tramp in that desolate and
fierce mountain country. But by and
by the cars slowly dropped lower and
lower into the coast country of British
Columbia, following the mighty and al
ways angry Fraser river, and ahen came
more of Western life.
A MODEL RACE.
The Siwash Indians who dwell here are
extraordinarily like the Chinese in ia
cial features, but from centuries of boat
rowing they have grown short-legged
and broad at the shoulders. They are
fish-eaters and are mild and pacific,
with natural inclination to work for
their living and no strong aversion to
the clothes, the houses or even the re-
ligiOn of the whites. Happening to
pass village where one of their
churches was established, during the
celebration of grand church festival,
L saw 1900 or more together. Their
dragOn-prowed dug-outS-mighty ca
noes hewn out of huge logs and decked
Enthusiastically with carvings and gay col
OrS-Were hauled up on the bank of
the Fraser; hundreds of the men, in
clumsy, coarse suits of ''store clothes, :"
lOitered along the track to see the train
come in, and beyond them, on a bluff,
other men and thousand women and
children-all dressed like the people
one sees in the Blue Ridge mountains
or any other section remote from large
towns-were massed around the Catho-
lie church or walking beneath triumphal
arches of calico and evergreen, or gaz-
ing in enthusiastic pride upon a calico
and tir-tree grotto, in the DEPTHS of
which was painted gray-hued picture
of the BlessedVirgin and her holy babe.
Here was a surprise, indeed, to find
redskins who worked like white men,
dressed like white men and assembled
piOusly on festal church days to dedi-
cate themselves anew TO the faith of
white men.
And all along that same river were