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others. If we may credit him, they missed more than they hit. In his. 
jargon of English, Spanish, and Indian, supplemented with copious and 
expressive pantomime, he described how they hid themselves in the booth, 
and how the deer came scurrying past; then he quickly caught up his bow 
and shot, shot, shot; then peered out of the bushes, looked blank, laughed, 
and cried out, “All run away; no shoot um deer!” 
Ma’-ta (the canon), Indian Canon. A generic word, in explaining 
which the Indians hold up both hands to denote perpendicular walls. 
Ham/-mo-ko (usually contracted to Ham’-moak), a generic word, used 
several times in the valley to denote the broken debris lying at the foot of 
the walls. 
U-zu'-mai-ti La/-wa-tuh (grizzly-bear skin), Glacier Rock. The In- 
dians give it this name from the grayish, grizzled appearance of the wall 
and a fancied resemblance to a bear-skin stretched out on one of its faces. 
Tu-tu’-lu-wi-sak, Tu-til/-wi-ak, the southern wall of South Canon. 
Cho-ko-nip’-o-deh (baby-basket), Royal Arches. This curved and 
overhanging canopy-rock bears no little resemblance to an Indian baby- 
basket. Another form is cho-ko'-ni; and either one means literally ‘“dog- 
place” or ‘‘dog-house ”. 
Tol’-leh, the soil or surface of the valley wherever not occupied by ¢ 
village; the commons. It also denotes the bank of a river. 
Pai-wai’-ak (white water?), Vernal Fall. The common word for 
“water” is kik’-kuh, but a-wai’-a means ‘a lake” or body of water. I have 
detected a conjectural root, pai, pi, denoting “white”, in two languages. 
Yo-wai’-yi, Nevada Fall. In this word also we detect the root of 
awaia. 
Tis-se’-yak, South Dome. This is the name of a woman who figures in 
a legend related below. The Indian woman cuts her hair straight across the 
forehead, and allows the sides to drop along her cheeks, presenting a square 
face, which the Indians account the acme of female beauty ; and they think 
they discover this square face in the vast front of South Dome. 
To-ko’-ye, North Dome. This rock represents Tisseyak’s husband. 
On one side “of him is a huge, conical rock, which the Indians call the 
acorn-basket that his wife threw at him in anger. 
