2(j niSToincAL tioxts. 



was boru about the year 1840, and since lie was a boy then, carrying only a i)istol, this 

 raid may have taken place abont the year 185S. His second raid, which was nnder- 

 taken the yeai' afterward, was made when he was nearly twenty years old. After this 

 he stayed live years in Oregon City, on the Lower M^ilKimet River. 



19, 1(>, and 20, 1. What is said here up to the word snawii'ds is evidently au anti- 

 cipation of what follows in 20, 6. 7. 



19, 16. sas tilllndsa, or shash tilindsha: shash is api)ositiou to w6waimish, which 

 stands here, as frequently, for wewauuishash; 23, 5, we find : wewAnlshash. 



20, 2. lapik for hipi gi: " two are, two were." 



20, !). Tiuno'lcshtat. The distance between Klamath Marsh and the Pit Eiver 

 country was estimated at three days' Indian travel; but it often took four days to I'each 

 there on liorseback. 



20, 10 and 11. maklaksksaksi refers to the encampment and immediate surround- 

 ings of the Indian captors, the KJamath Lake men and the Modocs, wlio had gone with 

 thenj. 



20, 13. guhuashktcha. They seem to have; returned home over the sauu' trail 

 which they had followed in going south. They pas.sed between Little Klamath and 

 Ilhett Lake, which latter is also called Tule and Modoc Lake. 



20, 17. tsiii ge-u, etc. This sentence has to Ije construed as follows: tsiii gi'nkaka 

 lu'i'k lii'gs spunish ge-u: "hereupon that slave, transfeired by me, ran away." 



21, 2 and 3. Boshtin tpaok. This man was an American settler on Lost Eiver, 

 w ho, with other settlers, had lu'eviously attacked otu' of the Pit Eiver triVies, in punish- 

 ment for depredations eomniitted. In the light which took place, sonic whites were 

 killed by the Pit Elvers, and this prompted the abovementioned settler to slaughter an 

 ox for the Lake men, in order to raise their .spirits for deadly revenge on the common 

 enemy. The beef was slaughtered and eaten at his farm. 



21, 5. Tsiii uat, etc. This incident was explained to me by Dave Hill, as follows: 

 The famous Captain George was at that time war-chief both of the Klainaths and the 

 Modocs. He had ordered Kiukamtch, the head-man of the Nuslialtkaga=Modocs, to 

 Join the expedition against the Pit Elvers. His refusal to go prompted Dave Hill 

 and others to deprive him of his elk-skin euiras.ses; but finally, to secure success to 

 the expedition, the parfleshes were returned to their owners. 



21, 7. Humasht nat. A verb like gi or .slu'ita has to be supplied. 



21, 12. sellaluish, translated here by "war-expedition", still retains its verbal 

 nature ; for it is connected with two temporal adverbs : lupi' and hunk. More circiun- 

 •stantially the sentence can be rendered: "we rode far beyond the terminal point of 

 our previous raiding campaign." 



21. 18. lewak, a verb composed of two particles. G6tak and kduktak, formed 

 almost in the same manner, are also used as verbs. Below, 16wak is separated into 

 its two components by a pronoun : lii nat w<4k kaYi ; lii' nat w^dc galdsawi^-a. 



21. 19. w6wansni. The terminal -ni turns the w^wauuish into a kind of adjectival 

 phrase. See the peculiar use made of this ending in the Dictionary and in the Grammar. 



22,8. h^itaktk. The final k is the verb gi, Id, "said"; tchin hdtaktk is: tchi nu 

 hiitakt gi. 



22, 21. shatchl;fdmia is one of the various modes of painting face and body in use 

 among the western Indians. White paint was put on in this manner (see Dictionary) 

 only when the Indians were on the "war-path. From the same verbal base is deiived 



