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related, and, although each possesses a greater or less number 

 of words not contained in the others, their vocabularies show 

 many words which are common to all. 



The dialect formerly spoken at San Lais Obispo differs much 

 from any of the others, and a critical comparison is necessary 

 to reveal a sufficient number of words possessing identical roots 

 to render their common parentage obvious. 



Extensive vocabularies of the dialects of San Antonio and 

 San Miguel were obtained, there being about a dozen Indians 

 who speak these languages around the old San Antonio mis- 

 sion. These languages have been supposed to be of the Santa 

 Barbara family (as it has hitherto been termed, now called 

 Chumashan family), but the material obtained by Mr. Hen- 

 shaw disproves this, and, for the present at least, they are con- 

 sidered to form a distinct family. 



Mr. Henshaw visited Los Angeles and San Diego counties 

 for the purpose of determining the exact northern and southern 

 limits of the Shoshonian famil}^, which extends quite to the 

 coast in California. 



At San Diego and San Luis Rey he obtained vocabularies 

 representing four dialects of the Yuman family. 



WORK OF MR. A. S. GATSCHET. 



In August, 1S84, Mr. Gatschet proc-eeded to visit the Tonk- 

 awe and Lipan tribes in Texas 



He reached Fort Griffin on the 29tli of August. The 

 Tonkawe tribe was encamped about a mile and a half south of 

 Fort Griffin, Shackleford county, and consisted of 78 individ- 

 uals, while the Lipan camp, one mile north-northwest, consisted 

 of 19 persons onl}'. All these Indians were on the point of re- 

 moving to the Oakland reserve, Indian Territory. 



The Tonkawe constitute an aggregate of several tribal 

 remnants formerly living independently of one another in 

 southern Texas and on the Rio Grande. Mr. Gatschet devoted 

 five weeks to the study of their language and one week to 

 that of the Lipan, which is a dialect of Apache (Athapascan). 



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