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nately in marginal notes, here and there, the true classification was indicated, which 

 enabled me, by means of the correlative relationships given in the schedule, to 

 make out quite reliably the principal characteristics of the system. For example, 

 to the question which called for the relationships between the children of sisters, 

 he writes in the margin, "All. are brothers and sisters, no matter how far removed," 

 and to the same questions as to the children of a brother and sister, he remarks, 

 " Cousins arc always called brothers and sisters, however far removed." In like 

 manner he observes in another place, " Nephews and nieces are only so called when 

 actually such by relationship." The terms nephew and niece are given without 

 showing to what persons they are applied ; and yet as my father's brother is shown 

 to be my father, whilst my mother's brother is my uncle, it follows by correlation 

 that my brother's son, Ego a male, is my son, and that my sister's son is my nephew. 

 The lineal and a part of the first and second collateral lines will be found in the 

 table, with such corrections as the contents of the schedule rendered substantially 

 certain. 



First Indicative Feature. My brother's son and daughter, Ego a male, are my 

 son and daughter. With Ego a female, it is not certain whether they are my 

 nephew and niece, or my son and daughter. 



Second. My sister's son and daughter, Ego a male, are my nephew and niece. 

 With Ego a female, they are my son and daughter. 



Third. My father's brother is my father. 



Fourth. My father's brother's son and daughter are my brother and sister, elder 

 or younger. 



Fifth. My father's sister is my aunt. 



Sixth. My mother's brother is my uncle. 



Seventh. My mother's sister is my mother. 



Eighth. My mother's sister's son and daughter are my brother and sister, elder 

 or younger. 



Ninth. Not given. 



Tenth. My brother's grandchildren are my grandchildren. 



The remaining collateral lines are not fully extended ; but without doubt they 

 are brought into the lineal. For the marriage relationships, which are fully dis- 

 criminated, and in agreement with the common form, reference is made to the 

 Table. 



5. Tukuthe. The system of this nation was furnished by R. McDonald, Esq., 

 of Peel River, one of the officers of the Hudson's Bay Company. It is evident 

 from the schedule returned, every question upon which is answered, that Mr. Mc- 

 Donald's investigation was thoroughly made. Such is the extent of the discrimi- 

 nations and the opulence of the nomenclature that the series of questions in the 

 printed schedule was not full enough to develop the whole of the system. A por- 

 tion of it is still left undetermined. It arises from a tendency among the Tukuthe, 

 as well as other Athapascan nations, to use a double nomenclature, one part of which 

 is used by the males, and the other by the females ; and to make a further distinction 

 of relatives of the same class into elder or younger, applying different terms to each. 

 For the first provision was made in the schedule to a very liberal extent, but not for 



