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INDEX. 



It. 



MAK.UI INDIANS, 5, 6 

 MAMA-TIILON-TOXA, humming bird, 5 

 MARCHAND S voyages, 10 

 METHOD of ascertaining the meaning 



of Indian emblems, 6 

 MEXICANS, 12, 13 

 MORESBY S ISLAND, one of the Queen 



Charlotte group, 1 

 MOKCAN, styles the North American 



Indians bow and arrow people, 2 

 MORTON, an eminent authority, 12 

 Mowatchat, or liowatchat, name of 



Nootka, 14 



N. 



NlTTINAT, 15 



Noo, the squid, octopus, 6 



NOOTKA, not the name of a tribe or 

 country, the name of a dance, ex 

 plained by a Clyoquet Indian, 13 



NOOTKAN TREATY, 13 



NOKTU ISLAND, one of the Queen 

 Charlotte group, 1 



NORTHERN INDIANS, a term applied by 

 residents on Puget Hound to all 

 tribes north of Vancouver s Island, 

 2 



NORTHWEST COAST, or three years in 

 Washington Territory, 13 



0. 



Octopus, the squid, 5 

 ODD AND KVKN, a gambling game, 8 

 Oolala, a mythological being, 5 

 Orca ater, killer, scana, 4 

 Otter, carving of, mistaken for lizard, 

 G 



P. 



PARRY PASSAGE separates North from 

 Graham s Island, 2 



Perez, Capt. Juan, a Spanish naviga 

 tor who first sighted Queen Char 

 lotte s Islands, 1774, 1 



Pillars of wood sixty feet high carved 

 by Indians, 3 



Point Wilson, near Port Towusend, 9 



1 ortlock and D.xou, 10 



Port Discovery, 9 



Port Townseud, visit of Indians, 3 ; 

 cremation, 9 ; best place to collect 

 information, 15 



Prevost Island, one of the Queen 

 Charlotte s group, 1 



Pyramids of Egypt, 14. 



Q. 



Queen Charlotte s Islands, a group in 

 the North Pacific first discovered 

 by Cook in 177U, and taken posses 

 sion of by Capt. Dixon, and named 

 by him in 1787 ; names of the 

 group, North, Graham s, Moresby s, 

 and Prevost, 1 ; tribes of, 2; great 

 quantities of sculpture, 11 ; cus 

 toms of natives resemble Kam- 

 tschadales, 13 



R. 



Rosetta Stone, 14 



Russian American Fur Company, 13 

 Russian words, found among Alaskan 

 Indians, 13 



S. 



Scammon, Cetacea of the northwest, 5 

 Scana, arm liter, the killer, 4, 5 

 Sea lion, tnhn, 4 

 Selish or Flathead Indians, 2, 8, 12, 



13 



Shell-heap remains, 13 

 Siberia, 12 



Sitka Indians, 7 

 Skamskiau, the eagle, 4, 5 

 Skedance, Captain, chief of Koona vil 

 lage, 5 



Skidegatu Channel, 2 

 Slate stone carvings, 3 

 Squier, an eminent authority, 12 

 Stale, 4 



Stewart s Channel, 2 

 Stoo, the crayfish, 4 



T. 



Tadn-skillik, a peculiar shaped hat 



worn by chiefs, 4 

 Tahn, the sea lion, 4 

 Tartar hordes, resemblance of, to Hai- 



dah Indians, 2 



Tattoo marks, description of, 3, 5, (! 

 Tchimose, or chimose, a fabulous 



animal, 5 



Thlama, the skate, 5 

 Thunder bird, skamsom, or skam- 



skwin, 5 



Tlkamkostan, the frog, 4, 5 

 Totems, or heraldic designs, 3 

 Tsching, the beaver, 4 



V. 



Vancouver s Island, 1 

 Victoria, 14 



Voyages of Cook, La Perouse, Port- 

 lock and Dixon, and Marchand, 10 



W. 



Washington Territory, tribes of, 2 

 Wasko, mythological wolf, 4, 5 

 Whale, koone, 5 



Young crow, keetkie, 4 



