MISCELLANEOUS VOCABULARIES. 



BESIDES the words of the Shasty language before mentioned, Mr. Dana collected voca- 

 bularies of several dialects spoken on the Sacramento, which are of especial value, as 

 being the only information which we possess relative to the ethnography of that region. 

 The following are a few words of the language spoken by the Indians on that river, about 

 two hundred and fifty miles above its mouth. The name of the tribe was not ascertained. 



(1.) UPPER SACRAMENTO. 



hair, tomoi knife (or iron), kelekele 



eye, tumiit sun, sSs 



nose, tsono fire, po 



mouth, ka.1, kiilo water, meim, meima 



chin, kentikut deer, nop 



forehead, tei salmon, monok 



arm, keole grape, uyiilu 



fingers, tsemiit rush, tso 



leg, tole eat, ba or bos 



foot, ktamoso see, or let me see, ivila, wile 



knee, huiuk go, hara 



At the residence of Captain Suter, a respectable settler, who had established himself 

 about a hundred miles up the Sacramento, Mr. Dana learned that all the Indians of that 

 vicinity, who were divided into numerous tribes or bands, might be referred to two races, 

 one of which dwelt chiefly on the east side of the river, and the other on the west, or on 

 the banks of Feather River, a tributary to the Sacramento on the eastern side, about 

 twenty miles further up. These races resembled one another in every respect but lan- 

 guage. To the former belong the Talatui tribe, of which a vocabulary was obtained, as 

 well as the following bands, the names of which were furnished by Captain Suter, viz. : 

 the Ochecamnes, Servushamnes, Chupumnes, Omutchumnes, Sicumnes, Walagumnes, 

 Cosumnes, Sololumnes, Turealemnes, Saywamines, Nevichumnes, Matchemnes, Sagaya- 

 yumnes, Muthelemnes, and Lopotatimnes. In the dialects of all these tribes the word for 

 water is ktk, while in those of the other race it is momi. 



