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walk." If you wish to say good-morning or good- 

 evening to an Indian you say: 



" Kla-how-ya, six." 



"Chah-co yah-wa" is "Come here." 



"Mi-ka tik-eh mam-ook?" "Do you want to 

 work?" 



' ' Ik-ta mi-ka mam-ook?' ' "At what?' ' 



' ' Mam-ook stick." ' ' Cut some wood." 



< < Na- wit-ka. " " Certainly. ' ' 



" Kon-si dat-la spose mi-ka mam-ook kon-a-way 

 o-koke stick?" "What do you want for cutting 

 that lot of wood?" 



"Ikt dol la." " One dollar." 



The numerals are ikt (one), mox (two), klone 

 (three), lock-it (four), kwin-num (five), tagh-kum 

 (six), sin-na mox (seven), sto te-kin (eight), twaist 

 (nine), tah-tlum (ten), tah-tlum pee-ikt (eleven), tah- 

 tlum pee-mox (twelve), mox-tah tlum (twenty), 

 klone tah-tlum (thirty), ikt tali-kamo-nux (one 

 hundred), tah-tlum to-ka mo-mik (one thousand), 

 etc. It is often difficult to get accurate information 

 from these Indians as to distances or time, as they 

 have little idea of English miles or of the measure- 

 ments of time, and very few of them own or know 

 how to read a watch or clock. Under Pean's tutelage 

 I learned rapidly, and was soon able to carry on 

 quite an interesting conversation by the aid of the 

 little dictionary. 



By the light of a rousing camp-fire I cut a large 

 quantity of cedar boughs and made for myself a 

 bed a foot deep. On this I spread my sleeping-bag, 

 crawled into it and slept the sleep of the weary hun- 

 ter. Pean cut only a handful of boughs, spread 



