I'EEFACE. 



Setting aside inteijections, common in a more or less modified 

 form to several adjoining tribes, twenty-one words of those given in 

 tbis vocabulary present noticeable analogies between the Chinook 

 and other native languages. They are as follows : 



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The Clatsop (Klatsop) is merely a dialect of the Chinook (Tchi- 

 niik) ; the Cowlitz (Kaualitsk), Kwantlen, Chihalis (Tsihelis), and 

 Nisqually (N'skwali), are severally languages belonging to the f 

 Selish family. The Yakama and Klikatat are dialects of one of the 



