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3. Kellamiicks, Inhabiting the Kellamuck River, and 



south of the Cladsaps. 



4. Cathlamuts. Inhabiting the south bank of the Columbia 



above the Cheenooks. 



11. Umpquas. — Lewis and Clark have given the names of 

 many Cheenook tribes which live on the bays and streams 

 entering the Pacific, and extending towards the Umpqua river. 

 Their names it is unnecessary to repeat. We will merely 

 state, that beyond them, and on the Umpqua and Clamet 

 rivers, we find the Umpqua Indians, of whom we know very 

 little, except that they speak a very distinct language, and 

 are therefore entitled to form a separate family. 



12. Cathlascans. — The Cathlascans inhabit the banks of 

 the Columbia, from the Falls down to Wappatoo Island, and 

 also the lower part of the Multrumah or Willamud river. 

 The Cathlascans are divided into many little tribes. Their 

 chief place of resort is Wappatoo Island, a low but fertile 

 tract, which resemble the Lizerias of the Tagus. The alluvial 

 and overflown parts of the island abound in a species of Sa- 

 gittaria, resembling the iS". sagittifolia, but remarkable for 

 producing at the root a tuber of the size of that of the arti- 

 choke, which it very much resembles in flavour, and forms an 

 important article of food to the natives of the Lower Columbia. 



As in the case of the northern tribes, the families which 

 we have called Kawitchen, Nootkan, Cheenook, and Cath- 

 lascan, may form a group by themselves, and the recurrence 

 of the same words in several of the vocabularies, induces us 

 to suppose that the differences will be reduced as our know- 

 ledge of the ethnography of the Oregon improves^ 



13. Shahaptan. 



1. Kliketan. Inhabit the tract between Fond Ner Per- 



cees, Mount Rainier, and the Falls of the Columbia. 



2. Shahaptans or Ner Percees. Inhabit the southern 



branch of the Columbia, and spread over a great 

 extent of country. 



3. Wallawalla. 



4. Cayoose. Inhabit the Snake River from its mouth to 



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