YUKI AND WAPPO LANGUAGES. 197 
two tribes then entered into a treaty by which the Gallinomero ceded to 
the Wappo a_portion of Russian River Valley about ten miles long north 
and south, and reaching across from mountain-top to mountain-top. That 
portion of the Wappo who occupied this tract became known as the Rin- 
cons. In descending this valley, I was surprised to find a break in the 
Pomo dialects, beginning about Geyserville and reaching down to Healds- 
burg. It was accounted for by this recent Wappo conquest, by which a 
foreign language had been interjected into the Pomo. With this exception 
the Pomo dialects are continuous from the head to the mouth of Russian 
River; while along the mountain chain east of it runs a parallel body of 
language of nearly equal length, namely, the Yuki or Wappo. 
That the Wappo and the Yuki are somewhat related is shown by the 
similarity of some words, thus: 
YUKI. HUCHNOM. WAPPO. 
One. pong’-weh. pu-weh. pa-wah. 
Two. é-peh. hé-peh. 
Seven. o-pi-diin’. o-pi-hiin’. 
To go. ko-at'-tah. chau-a-si. 
Tree. oal. hoal. 
Yesterday. sim. su’-ma. 
This resemblance and manifest relationship between the two lan- 
guages is singular, when we consider that they are separated by an inter- 
val of at least sixty miles, with a branch of the Pomo (in the mountain 
gap leading over from Ukiah to Clear Lake) interpolated between them. 
This raises the question, Did the Yuki-Wappo once occupy the Russian 
River Valley and yield it to its present occupants”? What was the course 
of migration or conflict which some time or other in the past has disrupted 
and broken asunder these two languages so clearly of a common origin ? 
In regard of this treaty, Dr. E. Ely relates this: He was once out hunt- 
ing in company with a Gallinomero, when he beat up a fine buck and shot 
it. He told the Indian to shoulder the carcass and carry it home, but to 
his great surprise the savage refused. It appeared that the buck lad 
