74 G. M. DAWSON ON THE KWAKIOOL 



sta-mish, a village composed of two or three houses of very riide construction, at the 

 north entrance point of Claydon Bay, Wells Passage. They engage in salmon fishing at 

 the mouth of a river emptying into Embley Lagoon close by, and also in the manufacture 

 of canoes, for which they are celebrated. At Kun-sta-mish is a little rocky islet which 

 has evidently, at one time, been occupied by a forttfied village. 



(IT) M(l'-me-K-li-a-ka a.nd Kwlk'-so-tino (Mahma-lilli-kullah and KwTck-so-te-no). — These 

 tribes reside in a large village, subtantially built, named Mêm-koom-lish, and situated on 

 the west end of Village Island of the chart, not far from the entrance to Knight's Inlet. 

 There are numbers of graves on the little islands off the village and along the shore to 

 the south of it. Tradition does not relate that these tribes had any other principal village. 

 They are the MamaleilakitTsb, or Mam-il-i-li-a-ka, of the " Comparative Vocabularies." 



(18) Kl il -wit- sis (Klâh-wit-sis) Klowitshis or Kla-wi-tsush of " Comparative Vocabu- 

 laries." — These people now live at the village named Kfi-loo-kwis, on the west end of 

 Turnour Island, having moved to that place after it was abandoned by the Fort Rupert 

 tribes, as previously noted, probably about 1849. They formerly resided at the west end of 

 Klawitsis Island of the chart, not far off, where the site of their old Anllage is still clearly 

 apparent. Previous to the removal of the Fort Rupert tribes, and perhaps also subsequent 

 to that event, a part of this tribe inhabited a village just to the south of Health Bay, on 

 the west end of Grilford Island. This is marked as a village on the charts, but all traces 

 of it have now disappeared, with the exception of the old shell-heaps. The present village 

 consists of ten or eleven large houses, some of which are well built. Two of them, at the 

 time of my visit (1885) were adorned with designs of a large salmon, in black and red, in 

 heraldic style, extending across the whole width of the front. A small island with graves, 

 decked out with streamers of calico, etc., lies opposite the village and not far off. 



(19) Mn-tilh-pl (Mah-teelth-pe) Matelpa or Met-ul-pai of " Comparative Vocabularies." — 

 The village of this tribe, named Etsï-kin, is situated on Havanna Channel. No further 

 particulars were learned respecting this small tribe. 



(20) Wâ'-lU-sum, Wï-wê-eke, Kwl-ha, WV-wc-ekum and A-wn-oo (Wfiw-l it-sum, Wê-wai- 

 ai-kai, KwC-ah-kah, "Wc-wai-ai-kum and Ah-wâh-oo). — These tribes are closely allied, their 

 central place being at Cape Mudge. They are together know to the whites as the Li-kwil- 

 tah or Uculta Indians. This name is probably adopted from that given to this people by 

 the southern Indians of the Strait of Georgia. They constitute the southern branch of the 

 Kwakiool people. The principle village of the Wu'-lit-sum is named Koo-sam, and is at 

 the mouth of Salmon River, Vancouver Island. An old village, not now inhabited, still 

 remains on the opposite side of Johnstone Strait. 



The "Wï-wë-eke constitute the premier tribe of this group their village, named Tsa- 

 kwa-loo'-in and known to the whites as the " Uculta Village," being situated on the west 

 side of Cape Mudge a short distance north of its extremity. When Vancouver first visited 

 this region (1792) he noted an extensive village at Cape Mudge and describes it at some 

 length (Vol. I. p. 328, 8vo. éd.), and the situation is so favorable a one that it has probably 

 been a central point for the Indians ever since they inhabited the coast. The present 

 village is ranged along a low shore. In Vancouver's time, it was built at the summit of a 

 high bluff of sand and gravel, a little south of the modern site. 



The Kwî-ha tribe is said in former times to have been a part of that of the same name 

 now residing at Fort Rupert. Their principal place is Tsai-ïye-uk at Arran Rapids, north 



