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make the forehead more retreating, which, with the aquiline nose 

 common to these natives, gives to them, occasionally, a physiognomy 

 similar to that represented in the hieroglyphical paintings of Central 

 America. 



5. W A I I L A T P U. 

 O. CAILLOUX, OR CAY USE. 



The Waiilatpu inhabit the country south of the Sahaptin and 

 Wallawalla. Their head-quarters are on the upper part of the Walla- 

 walla River, where they live in close connexion with a band of Nez- 

 perces, whose language they usually speak in preference to their 

 own, which has nearly fallen into disuse. They are a small tribe, 

 not numbering five hundred souls, but they are nevertheless looked 

 upon with respect by the tribes around them, as being good warriors, 

 and, what is more, as having much wealth. As their country affords 

 extensive pasturage, they are able to keep large droves of horses, one 

 of their chiefs having as many as two thousand. They are much of 

 the time on horseback, and make long excursions to the east and 

 south. In former times, they waged war with the Shoshonees and 

 Lutuamis, but of late years these hostilities have been suspended. 



p. MOLELE. 



The residence of the Molele is (or was) in the broken and wooded 

 country about Mounts Hood and Vancouver. They were never very 

 numerous, and have suffered much of late from various diseases, par- 

 ticularly the ague-fever. In 1841 they numbered but twenty indi- 

 viduals ; several deaths took place while we were in the country, and 

 the tribe is probably, at present, nearly or quite extinct. 



6. T S H I N U K. 

 Q. WATLALA, OR UPPER CHINOOK. 



This name (Watylala) properly belongs to the Indians at the 

 Cascades, about one hundred and fifty miles from the mouth of the 

 Columbia ; but for want of a general appellation, it has been extended 

 to all the tribes speaking dialects of a common language, from Mul- 

 tnoma Island, to the Falls of the Columbia, including also those on 

 the lower part of the Willammet. At the period of the visit of Lewis 



