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General Horace Porter, Campaigning with Grant, Chapter 23 (search)
ne little matter: you forgot to read the despatch. How can I read your incomprehensible hieroglyphics? he replied. Hieroglyphics-thunder! I said; why that's Chinook. And what's Chinook? he asked. What! you don't know Chinook? Oh, I see your early education as a linguist has been neglected, I answered. Why, Chinook is the court language of the Northwestern Indian tribes. Ingalls and I, and all the fellows that served out in Oregon, picked up that jargon. Now I'll read it to you in English: Send me half barrel more that same whisky You see, Ingalls always trusts my judgment on whisky. He thinks I can tell the quality of the liquor by feeling the head of the barrel in the dark. That was too much for the great War Secretary, and he broke out with a laugh such as I don't believe the War Department had ever heard since he was appointed to office; but I learned afterward that he took the precaution, nevertheless, to show the despatch to an army officer who had served in the Nort