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shatcholgi, to contiact the half-opened hand or fingers. Compare also: shat;^a'dsha, 

 sliatuap^a, shatfilakish. 



23, 6. gakayfiluk refers to the women, not to the Klamath men. These latter 

 retired with the captured females to the top of a hill, to secure themselves better against 

 further hostile attacks. shishat;^a, distributive form of shiat;fa. 



23, 11. tinkayula. The Pit River meu ran out of the timber to flee from further 

 attacks, and some ran up the steep bank from the dryri v er bed. While they did so, the 

 Lake men surrounded them and i;oni)>leteIy closed the circle (shtA hashdmpka). Never- 

 theless, some of them managed to break through the intervals ; this frightened the 

 Klamath men, and then the other Pit Rivers also escaped towai'ds the hills. 



23, 12-14. The tliree men and the boy who went up the hill belonged to the Pit 

 Rivers. The Klamath Lake warriors were so surprised at their sudden return to their 

 surrounded companions, that tlie Pit Riveis had an opportunity to escape during the 

 confusion. 



24, 4. N6tak. The sentence has to be construed : ndtak hishlan Im'uk, Moatua- 

 shash hu'nk ksdpok. "None others but ourselves shot at him; though he was one of 

 our men, we thought him to be a Pit River man ". 



24, 4. Mki. He had been shot in the eye-bone. 



24, 6. kla'kat stands for klii'ka at ; cf. 28, 12. gatpant for gatpna at. 



24, 6. shewat;^u'lsi : for shewatp^o'lash i, or shewat;ifO'lish i; the i appearing here 

 not as a local, but as a temporal case-suffix. shewat;^a, )won; lit.: the day divides 

 itself in two; shewat/o'la, affernoon, the day has divided itself iu two a while ago. 



24, 8. luluksgii'-ish, uncommon form for hiluksgish. loloksgish, rifl/?, gun, lit. "fire- 

 maker". 



24, 17. siukshtka stands for the full form siukshtka gi. 



24, 18. tuti'la. By inadvertence the distributive form is used here instead of the 

 absolute form tuila, for the Pit River man spoken of liad an aljnormal fleshy excres- 

 cence on one foot only. 



25, 1. sh6Ilualshuk : he means fighting with the Pit River Indians. 

 25, 1. ndannitaksni, incomplete grammatic form for ndannitankshni. 

 25, 2. kinka-ak i, only a few; meaning females of the Pit River tribes. 



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