2a2 TIME WINTUN 
sick and aged. About 1846 there was an epidemic among them which pro- 
duced fever and raging thirst; and in a camp near Red Bluff several of the 
invalids crawled down to the river to drink and fell in, owing to their 
weakness, and were allowed to float away and drown. 
A prominent disease among them, in aboriginal times, was various 
phases of lung complaint. 
As a tribe they were indifferent hunters but good fishermen, and they 
kept their larders abundantly supplied with dried salmon. It is not too 
much to say that as fisnermen they were industrious; they seem to take 
no small pleasure in waiting and watching for the approach of the fish; it 
is a lazy and a loafing occupation which is eminently congenial to the 
indolent nature of the California Indian. Their squaws were also indus- 
trious in collecting roots, nuts, berries, farinaceous seeds, ete. 
Mrs. Wm. Shard, whose husband settled near Red Bluff in 1844, 
relates the following instance of infanticide witnessed by herself. In a 
‘amp near her husband’s house a women died soon after confinement, and 
her young infant was buried alive in the grave with her, although Mrs. 
Shard begged them to give it to her and promised to rear it with the 
utmost care. 
The Wintin language has many words in common with the Patwin, 
a third or more according to my brief vocabularies, though it would not 
so appear from the numerals: 
WINTUN. PATWIN. 
One. | ket’-tet. e-té-ta. 
Two. | pal’-lel. pam’ -pet. 
Three. | pan-é-khel. po-né-thle. 
Four. | kla’-wit. i-mu-sta. 
Five. | chan’-shi. et-i-sem’-ta. 
Six. sé-pan-oakh. | sér-poat’-la. 
Seven. | lo-lok’-it. ser-po-té-ta. 
Eight. | sé-kla-wit. pan-i-mos’-ta. 
Nine. | chan-klé-wit. | pan-i-me-té-ta. 
Ten. | ti-kel-fes. pam-pa-sem’-ta. 
