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On the Languages of the Oregon Territory. 



words from a tribe on the Salmon River. Their locality is 

 called by Mackenzie the Friendly Village. By the aid of Mr 

 Tolmie's vocabularies, we can now place this hitherto unfixed 

 dialect. It belongs to the Billechoola tongue. 



Fitz-Hugh Sound. — For these parts we possess only the 

 numerals. They coincide most with the Haeltzuk, a lan- 

 guage that will next be noticed. The tennination in skum is 

 common to the Fitz-Hugh Sound and the Blackfoot numerals. 



English, 

 F. Sound, 

 Haeltzuk, 



English, 

 F, Sound, 

 Haeltzuk, 



English, 



F. Sound, 



Haeltzuk, 



Billechoola, 



English, 



F. Sound, 



Haeltzuk, 



Billeclioola, 



English, 



J*". Sound, 



Haeltzuk, 



English, 



F. Sound, 



Haeltzuk, 



English, 

 F. Sound, 

 Haeltzuk, 



two, 



malscum. 



malook. 



three, 



utascum. 



yootook. 



four, 



moozcum. 



moak. 



moash. 



five. 



thekaescum. 



skeowk. 



tzeiuch. 



$iv. 



kitliscum. 



katlowk. 



teven. 



atloopooskum. 



malthlowsk. 



ten. 



highioo. 



aikas. 



Haeltzuk. 

 to 53'' 30' N, 



-Mr Tolmie's vocabulary. Spoken from 50° 30' 



L. — Journal of Geogrciph. Soc. 

 Quadra and Vancouver's Island — Nootka Sound. — For 

 these parts we have several vocabularies. 

 1. The Numerals.— From Dixon— Mithridates, iii., 2, 115. 



