100 TRANSACTIONS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. [VoL. VI. 
Further tnaccuractes. 
skel-e’-na (or rather sKe-lena) means : my husband, not man 
ya-za cloudless sky sky (in general) 
kos (or rather 'kos) cloud sky 
tih grouse bird 
tsoo (or rather t’soo) spruce (abzes nigra) tree 
ges (probably) white salmon salmon 
nin’-e thou I 
sin’-e I thou 
a-neh, a-ni are interjections which mean come here! not verbs meaning to come 
ta is an interjection which means give it to me! not to give 
sintuh’, sinta’ mean be seated (and quiet) not to sit 
Of the verbs some are at the first person, others at the second, a few 
at the third, and others at the impersonal. Dawson’s Vocabularies hint 
at no difference in Indian between fly and bird, he and that, tongue and 
mouth, house and village, man and husband. 
The above remark concerning the verbs holds good relatively to those 
recorded by Dr. Boas, a majority of which are at the second person. 
Others, which, in the latter's Vocabulary, are monosyllabic, cannot be 
correct for the reason presented in the course of my paper. 
As to G. Gibbs’ Vocabulary, the admission by its compiler that it “is 
not always altogether correct” (Tenth Rep., B.A.A.S., p. 68) renders 
any criticism on the same unnecessary. 
Nore.-—When the above was written, I was not yet acquainted with Dr. Boas’s short 
** Vocabulary of the Chilcotin Language” (Twelfth Report on the North-West tribes 
of Canada, B.A.A.S.), which teems with errors. But that gentleman, being a con- 
scientious scholar, takes care to preface it with the remark that since he is ‘‘not 
familiar with the grammatical structure of the language, the vocabulary must be held 
subject to revision,” a precaution some writers are not loyal enough to take. In this 
connection, I would take the liberty to observe that the double consonant ¢/, pronounced 
exactly as in English, is of very common occurrence in all the Déné dialects. Now, 
since Dr. Boas, and quite a few others, render by ¢/ the sibilant / which I usually repre- 
sent by an inverted /, I would ask: How do those authors transcribe the common ¢/ 
sound (=t+1) which we find, for instance, in the Chilcotin negative particle ¢/a (pro- 
nounced tlah), and in such words as //z7 (pronounced tloon), ‘‘mouse,”’ @7z¢/é (prohibitive 
particle, Awaztlen, ‘“he was born,” ¢/aasa,*‘ very good,” tlaqja, ‘*‘ very many,’ (not 
‘many,’ as Dr. Boas has it), ete. Dr. Boas spells this last word /¢/aa’tla, that is, 
with two identical //’s, though the sound represented by the first is very different indeed 
from that of the last, wherein there is absolutely no / sound. 
