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How far is it 1 



Sign for Do you know? followed with a precise movement tlirow- 

 iug riglit liand (palm toward face) to a position as far from bodj' as 

 couveuient, signifying "far?"; then with the same quick, precise mo- 

 tion, bring the hand to a position near the face — near? (ISahaptin I.) 



How will you go — horseback or in wagon ? 



First make the sign for I>o yoii kiion'? then throw right hand 

 forward — "go or going,"; then throw fore and middle fingers of right 

 astride the forefinger of the left hand, signifying, "will you ride?"; 

 then swing the forefingers of each hand around each other, sign of wheel 

 running, signifying, "or will you go in wagon?" {Sahaptin I.) 



DLILOGUES, ETC. 



The following conversation took place at Washington, in April, 1880, 

 between Tendoy, chief of the Shoshoni and Banak Indians of Idaho, and 

 HuERiTO, one of the Apache chiefs from Xew Mexico, in the pi-esence 

 of Dr. W. J. Hoffman. Neither of these Indians spoke any language 

 known to the other, or had ever met or heard of one another before that 

 occasion : 



HuERiTO.— Who are you ? 



Place the flat and extended right hand, palm forward, about twelve 

 inches in front of and as high as the shoidder, then shake the hand 

 from side to side as it is moved forward and upward — question, who 

 are you f 



Tendoy. — 8ho!iihoni chief. 



Place the closed right hand near the right hip, leaving the index 

 only extended, palm down ; then pass the hand toward the front and 

 left, rotating the hand from side to side— Shoshoni ; then place the 

 closed hand, with the index extended and pointing upward, near the 

 right cheek, pass it upward as high as the head, then turn it forward 

 and downward toward the ground, terminating with the movement a 

 little below the initial point — chief. 



HuERiTO. — How old are you I 



Clinch both hands and cross the forearms before the breast with a 

 trembling motion — cold — winters, years; then elevate the left hand as 

 high as the neck and about twelve or fifteen inches before it, palm to- 

 ward the face, with fingers extended and pointing upward ; then, with 

 the index, turn down one finger after another slowly, beginning at the 

 little finger, until three or four are folded against the palm, and look in- 

 quiringly at the person addressed — how many. 



