498 £IGN LANGUAGE AMONG NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. 
(95) Sign for women (No. 77)—to women. 
(96) Right hand, palm down, pointing to left, placed horizontally 
before heart and cients raised several uci? and glad. 
(97) Pointing to his companion—he. 
(98) Motion of paddling—in canoe. 
(99) Right arm and hand extended in N. EH. direction, gradually 
curved back until index touches speaker—came to me from the northeast. 
(100) Sign for together as above (No. 30)—together. 
(101) Motion of paddling—paddled. 
(102) Pointing to ground—to this place. 
(103) K. Motion of drinking water out of hand—vater. 
(104) Teenie circle with right index on palm of left hand extended 
horizontally—lake. 
(105) Left hand raised to height of eye, palm to front, fingers leaning 
Slightly backward. Fingers of left hand closed alternately—how many ? 
(106) 7. Holding up right hand back to front, showing four fingers, 
eyes looking at them as if counting—four. 
(107) Sign for packing with wooden breast-brace as above; three 
fingers of right hand shown as above—three portages. 
(108) K. Right hand pointing to gun of stranger—gun. Left hand 
raised height of eye, palm to front, and moved rapidly several times to 
right and left—interrogation. 
(109) Sign for trade as before (No. 22)—trade; i. e., where did you buy 
the gun? 
(110) 7. Sign for Mouwntain-river as above (No. 2). Pointing east- 
ward—from the eastward. 
(111) Pointing to sun and then raising both hands, backs to front, 
fingers spread—ten days. 
(112) Pointing to me—white man. 
(113) Left hand held up vertically, palm outward, fingers joined. 
Right index placed horizontally across fingers of left hand in front, 
about the middle joint—pallisaded. 
(114) Describing square with right index on flat palm of left hand— 
building. 
(115) Pointing to his gun, powder-horn, blanket, and beads—trading 
goods. 
(116) Both hands horizontal, brought forward and upward from chest 
and then downward—plenty. 
* Chatidoolts explained this to his sons as well as to me, saying that the 
mountain men hada peculiar mode of catching beavers with long sticks. 
}They never occupy a house in which one of the other Indians died. 
In giving this narrative I have observed the original sequence, but 
there were frequent interruptions, caused by consultation between Chati- 
doolts and his sons, and before the strangers departed again they had 
obtained a knowledge of some words of the Kenaitze language. 
