NUMERALS—CHIEFS—HOUSES. 45 
harsh and halting; the-voice often seems to come to a dead stop in the 
middle of a sentence. 
The following table of numerals will show how entirely different are 
the languages of the three tribes on the Klamath: 
YUROK. KAROK. | MODOK. 
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1 | spin’-i-ka. i-sa. nos. 
2 | neh’-ekh. | akh’-uk. laf. © 
3 | nakh’-kseh. kwi-rok. dun. 
4 | tsuh--neh. pi-si. é-nep. 
5 | mar’-i-roh. ter-d-oap. té-nep. 
6 | koh’-tseh. kri-vik. nats’-ksup. 
7 | cher’-wer-tseh. hok-i-ra-vik-y. | lup’-ksup. 
8 | kneh’-wit-tek. kwi-ro-ki-na-vik. | dun-ksup. 
9 | krh’-mek. tro-pi-tit’-1-sha. ska-gis. 
10 | wrh’-kler-wer. ter-ai-hi. * ta-o-nep. 
As among the Karok, the functions of the chief are principally advisory 
Like the pretor of ancient Rome, he can proclaim do, dico, but he can 
scarcely add addico. He can state the law or the custom and the facts, and 
he can give his opinion, but he can hardly pronounce judgment. The 
office is not hereditary ; the head man or captain is generally one of the 
oldest, and always one of the astutest, men of the village. They also rec- 
ognize the authority of a head-chief. 
Their houses—and the following descriptions will serve also for the 
Karok. 
are sometimes constructed on the level earth, but generally they 
excavate a round cellar, four or five feet deep and twelve or fifteen feet in 
diameter. Over this they build a square cabin of split poles or puncheons, 
planted erect in the ground, and covered with a flattish puncheon roof. 
They eat and sleep in the cellar, (it is only a pit, and it is not covered 
except by the roof), squatting in a circle around the fire, and store their 
supplies on the bank above next to the walls of the cabin. For a door they 
take a puncheon about four feet wide, set it up at one corner of the cabin, 
and with infinite scraping of flints and elk-horns bore a round hole through 
