MALEERY.] FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS—DICTIONARY. 409 
EXTRACTS FROM DICTIONARY. 
In the printed but unpublished Collection before mentioned, page 396, 
nearly three hundred quarto pages are devoted to descriptions of signs 
arranged in alphabetic order. A few of these are now presented to 
show the method adopted. They have been selected either as having con- 
nection with the foregoing discussion of the subject or because for some 
of them pictorial illustrations had already been prepared. Thereis propri- 
ety in giving all the signs under some of the title words when descriptions 
of only one or two of those signs have been used in the foregoing remarks. 
This prevents an erroneous inference that the signs so mentioned are the 
only or the common or the generally prevailing signs for the idea con- 
veyed. This course hasinvolved some slight repetition both of descrip- 
tions and of illustrations, as it seemed desirable that they should appear 
to the eye in the several connections indicated. The extracts are ren- 
dered less interesting and instructive by the necessity for omitting cross- 
references which would show contrasts and similarities for comparison, 
but would require a much larger part of the collected material to be 
now printed than is consistent with the present plan. Instead of occu- 
pying in this manner the remaining space allotted to this paper, it was 
decided to present, as of more general interest, the descriptions of 
TRIBAL SIGNS, PROPER NAMES, PHRASES, DIALOGUES, NARRATIVES, 
DISCOURSES, and SIGNALS, which follow the ExTRACTS. 
It will be observed thatin the following extracts there has been an 
attempt to supply the conceptions or origin of the several signs. 
When the supposed conception, obtained through collaborators, is 
printed before the authority given as reference, it is understood to have 
been gathered from an Indian as being his own conception, and is there- 
fore of special value. When printed after the authority and within 
quotation marks it is in the words of the collaborator as offered by him- 
self. When printed after the authority and without quotation marks 
it is suggested by this writer. 
The letters of the alphabet within parentheses, used in some of the de- 
scriptions, refer to the corresponding figures in TyPES OF HAND POSr- 
TIONS at the end of this paper. When such letters are followed by Arabic 
numerals it is meant that there is some deviation, which is described 
in the text, from that type of hand position corresponding with the let- 
ter which is still used as the basis of description. Example: In the 
first description from (Sahaptin 1) for bad, mean, page 412, (G) refers to 
the type of hand position so marked, being identically that position, 
but in the following reference, to (R 1), the type referred to by the letter 
