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The vocabulary wliich I have obtained is from the eastern members 

 of the tribe, but I do not understand that there is enough difference to 

 make it advisable to do anything- with the other. 



Besides the Indians just mentioned there are about seventy-live more 

 in various places who properly belong to the tribe. Many of these are 

 now on the northern side of the Straits of Fuca, in British Columbia. 



The three tribes here spoken of are so nearly alike in their manners 

 and customs that I have thought it best to describe them together, 

 simply noticing the points in which they difier. To have described 

 them separately would have involved much useless repetition. 



The Klallams believe that they were all, except the Ohemaknms, 

 created where they now are; and also that nearly all other tribes and 

 nations were created each one where it now lives. They have no relia- 

 ble knowledge of their own history earlier than the recollections of the 

 oldest Indian. 



In obtaining^ their names for various articles I have often found that 

 persons of eighteen or even twenty five years of age do not know the 

 names for stone arrow-heads, axes, chisels, anchors, rain stones, and the 

 like, which went out of use soon after the whites came. This shows 

 how quickly the past is forgotten with them. The following stories 

 were mostly written for me by a Twana school-boy, as they were told 

 him by his father: 



'' Queen North and the Colcine Indians. — While the Colcine Indians 

 were at peace in their habitations, a girl went out and looked into a 

 house and saw many of their enemies (in her mind) getting ready to go 

 into every house of the Colcines. She returned and told her master's 

 family, but thej' would not believe her. The same day a boy went to 

 get some water; when he looked into the water he saw some shadows, 

 which were smiling, and these were the Queen North Indians ; so he 

 went home in haste to tell his parents, but they woukl not believe him. 

 The girl took one of her master's sons and hid in the woods. Hence 

 these Indians were not afraid, and so were all killed, except the girl, the 

 little boy, and one man, for the Queen North Indians went into every 

 house and slew the Colcines. One man took his small babe and ran 

 away. His enemies [)ursued him, and when he saw they were about to 

 overtake him he laid down his child and began to swim the bay. The 

 Queen North Indians knew that they could not swim after the man, so 

 they took his child and cut it in pieces. When the girl came back she 

 found her master dead, because he would not believe her." 



" The Victoria Indians and two families. — Two families were travelling 

 together, and at night they lodged. While the}' were there some one 

 shot from the woods, and when they looked they saw some Indians. 

 One family went off as fast as they could, but the other had left their 

 child near a log. The Victoria Indians took him, but his father got 

 read}' and fired at them, and they restored the child. My father thought 

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