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7. The capital letters within parentheses denote the particular tribe to: 
which the preceding root belongs. Here is a list of all the tribes quoted 
in the vocabulary together with their habitat :— 
ABBREV. TRIBE. HABITAT, 
JIG Alaskan Loucheux Alaska. 
B. Beavers Peace River east side of the Rockies. 
Bab. Babines Babine Lake & ‘‘Rocher Déboulé,” B.C. 
1m be Bastard Loucheux Northern McKenzie District. 
Cy Carriers Stuart’s Lake, North and South, B.C. 
Ch. Chijkhoh’tins Chilcotin River, B.C. 
DER: Dog Ribs Retween Gt. Slave & Gt. Bear Lakes. 
inl Hares McKenzie, Anderson, McFarlane Rivs. 
Ibe Loucheux or Kut-chins MacKenzie River, 67° and northwards. 
EC: Lower Carriers South of Stuart’s Lake, B.C. 
M. Montagnais or Chipewayans Lake Athabaska, etc. 
N. Navajos Arizona and New Mexico, U.S.A. 
Na. Nah’anés Stickeen River and east. 
R.M. Rocky Mountain “ Montagnards” Rocky Mountains, about 60° N. 
S: Sékanais R. Mountains from 54° to 57° W. and E.. 
Wall. Variety of Loucheux MacKenzie River and Alaska. 
YK. Yellow Knives North East of Gt. Slave Lake. 
Various other less important tribes are also represented without credit 
through several words of the vocabulary. My principal aim in introduc-. 
ing the above initial capitals in the vocabulary is, in most cases, to point 
out the wonderful homophony which reigns between dialects of tribes. 
separated sometimes by thousands of miles. 
8. All the words proper to the Eastern dialects are extracted from 
Petitot’s Dzectzonnaire de la Langue Déné-Dindjié* For the sake of 
uniformity I have taken the liberty to re-spell them according to the 
requirements of my own orthography. For most of the Navajo terms I 
am under obligation to Dr. W. Matthews’ “ Mountain Chant,” published 
in a late volume emanating from the Smithsonian Institution} Shall I 
confess in this connection that the irregularity of some radical and, in. 
all the other dialects, unchangeable consonants entering into the com- 
position of those words would lead me to suspect that such delicate, but 
very important, sounds as t’s, ’k, ,, may possibly have escaped the 
notice of the compiler? Those and many other terms in the said 
Mountain Chant are, in other respects, so similar to synonyms from the 
Northern Déné dialects as to hardly leave me any other way of explain- 
ing away the discrepancies between, for instance, the Navajo roots Nos. 
3, 76, 84, 185 and 327 and their equivalents in the other dialects. If L 
*Paris, Ernest Leroux Editeur, 1876. 
+Vth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, p. 379. 
