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lar}^ These earlier collections include short vocabularies of the 

 Yakona language obtained by John I. Milhau (date not given), two 

 extensive glossaries of the Alsea and Yakona languages collected in 

 1884 by J. Owen Dorsey, and a fair collection of Alsea vocables made 

 in 1900 by Livingston Farrand. Farrand's manuscript collection is 

 the property of Columbia University in the City of New York, while 

 the other data are in the possession of the Bureau of American 

 Ethnology. Thus the present vocabulary, while by no means 

 exhaustive, presents a fairly good collection of the average number of 

 words used by a native Alsea Indian in his daily intercourse with 

 his fellow tribesmen. 



The phonetic transcription of the previous investigators differed 

 materially from my own system. It, therefore, became necessary to 

 systematize the spelling, which task was accomplished without any 

 difficulties. Only occasionally it was impossible to verify a stem or 

 noun contained in one of the older collections. AU such stems are 

 given here in their original spelling and are followed by the initials 

 of the collector. Thus (F) stands for Farrand, (D) for Dorse}^, etc. 



The stems are classed according to their initial sounds, and the 

 order in which the sounds are given is the following: 



The long diphthong a% has purposely been placed after the long 

 vvowel, with which it interchanges frequently, as well as with the 

 long e-vowel. In the same way the au diphthong interchanges 

 frequently with the long o and u vowels, for which reason it has been 

 placed immediately after these two vowels. The numerals that 

 follow each word refer to line and page of the present volume. Cer- 

 tain stems — not exemplified in the present volume — were found in 

 the four texts that were published by me previously in the Inter- 

 national Journal of American Linguistics (Myths of the Alsea Indians 

 of Northwestern Oregon, 1917, vol. 1, pp. 64-75). All such stems are 

 indicated by the initials JL preceding the numerals. Thus "136.14" 

 indicates that the stem is exemplified on page 136, line 14, of the 

 present volume: "JL 75.3" indicates that the example will be found 

 in the texts published in the Journal of American Linguistics, on 

 page 75, line 3, of the first volume. I tried, wherever possible, to 

 give at least two examples demonstrating the actual occurrence of a 

 given stem or noun. 



Derivatives of stems which occur in simple forms in this vocabu- 

 lary when following in alphabetical order the simpler form have been 



