WISH-OSK FAMILY. 
1.— Wish-osk. 
This vocabulary was published in Schoolcraft, vol. iii, p. 434, in George 
Gibbs’s Collections. It was afterward transliterated by him into No. 
361 of the Smithsonian Collections, the Smithsonian alphabet being 
used, which copy is here given. Of this tribe, and the Wi-yot, Mr. 
Gibbs says:—‘ The first [Wi-yot] is the name given to Eel River by 
the Indians at its mouth, and here applied to their dialect of that com- 
mon to the river and to Humboldt Bay. The vocabulary is far from 
perfect; less from the difficulty of conveying the idea—for on my 
return I obtained a very good interpreter—than from the very indis- 
tinct utterance of the Indians. The second [Wish-osk] is the name 
given to the Bay and Mad River Indians by those of Eel River. This 
was a dialect of the upper part of the bay, and was received from quite 
an intelligent young man. The general language, as elsewhere men- 
tioned, seems to extend from Cape Mendocino to Mad River, and as 
far back into the interior as the foot of the first range of mountains.” 
2.— Wi-yot. 
This was published also with the Wish-osk above. It was transliterated by 
Mr. Gibbs, in No. 860, Smithsonian Collections, the Smithsonian alpha- 
bet being used, which copy is given here. 
3.—Ko-wilth. 
Obtained by Mr. Ezra Williams near Humboldt Bay, California. It is No. ba 
328 of the Smithsonian Collections, and was by Mr. Gibbs transcribed 
in No. 362, retaining the original spelling. The latter number is 
given here. 
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