18 HISTORICAL TEXTS. 



Sd-adas tsi's Moatnasas tsi's udiiyua, SastiAsh tsis Walaniski'sh tsis 



Tho Snakca too, the Pit Rivera too (they) whipped the Shnstis too, the Kogue Rivers too, 



M6keash tsi's iiduyua A'-ukskni. Waitangi'shani tsfs ti'tatna tgmeska 



tbeKolapuyas too whipped the Lake tribe. From the Warm Spriug also atvarioas took away 



luduLZis timed 



wdts E-iishkni. 



horses the Lake men. 



NOTES, 



16. Dave Hill took part himself in one of these skirmishes. His historical accounts 

 are all given in tho fonvcrsational style, which almost throughout substitutes the 

 simple s for sh. I ha\ c not been able to determine the exact dates of these Eogue 

 River raids ; but they must have occurred before the cud of 1855, when the Oregon war 

 broke out, for after its termination most of the Rogue River Indians were removed from 

 their old homes to the coast reservations of Northwestern Oregon. The raids occurred 

 in the early youth of Dave Hill, who was born about lS4fl; so they may be placed be- 

 tween the years 1S4S and 1855. 



16, 2. tinatoks forms antithesis to tina of the preceding clause. The literal 

 meaning of botli is: ''one time the other time." 



16, 3. Walamsi. The suffix -i. -i, is the adverbial particle hi, and forms a locative 

 case, mainly found in local and topographical terms, as in Yamsi, Kakagosi, Ktaiwashi; 

 also in a few generic nouns designating localities, encamimients, mountains, etc. 



16, 5. shflshfi'dshapelish. The suffixed -sh is the pronoun sha, they, and in this 

 suffixed form also appears as -tch, -s. This verb stands in the distributive form ; 

 shiidshapgli, to rebuild a tire, being the absolute form. 



16, 7. n^u;ifatcli, for uiiu/a tchisli, "others also". 



16, 10. y.'ikaiiuapkuk, verbal causative of the future of yAkna. The forms ya'kna, 

 ya'ka, y^kna, y<?ka, are i)referable to yAkna, yAka. 



16, 11. sA-atsa. It is a common custom among western, and some eastern, wild 

 tribes to force their captives to dance in honor of the victory gained over theii- own 

 tribe. This is done especially during the scalp-dances. 



16, 11. TitnA lu'ks, etc. Here begins the account of a raid juade by the Rogue 

 River Indians upon the Klamath Lake settlements. It may have occiu-red one year 

 after the laid previously narrated. 



16, 15. sai>iya, etc. After escaping, he informed his own countrymen of aU the 

 local conditions of the Klamath Lake people and their country, and used all his topo- 

 graphical knowledge in guiding their warriors to the attack. 



17, 1 and 2. Tsui ne'lka. Indians and uncivilized races in all portions of the world 

 begin their raids upon the enemy before dawn, or at the earliest appearance of daylight. 



17, 9. giikAn and gekuAnapka, inflectional metathesis for giikna and gekAuuapka. 



17, 14. liushtcho'ktat for hushtcho'kat at, at (ye) being repeated twice. 



17, 16. tsokapks tcha is a contraction from tsokApkash tchi'sh a. 



17, 17. Tchissa, for tchi sha: thus they. 



17, 20. sellolok: synizesis of the longer form shellualuk, shellualiiga : through 

 fighting. 



17, 21. yuyAlk8=sitk, abbreviated from yuyAlkish = shitko, looking like persons 

 mourning over their lost companions, or made sorrowful by bondage to Indians of a 

 foreign tribe. 



