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29, 17 and 18. gay^-itsampk. The advance of the troops was ordered in conse- 

 quence of Hill's report that Snake Indians had been seen by him and his fellow-scout. 



29, 19. tu'=hak; hak means: on this side of something or somebody, referring to an 

 object located between the speaker and something more distant. 



29, 19 and 20. shla'pka (for shla'apka) and tiissuipk (for tassui-apk) "they saw and 

 attacked them in Hill's absence"; tinshampk " they scampered off unseen by Hill". If 

 the simplex verbal forms shlii'a, tdssui (or t^shui), tinshna were used, they would imply 

 that HUl then saw the Snake Indians himself, that he was among the troops charging 

 them, and that he had seen them in person scampering off. 



30, 3. lewd-ula really means : not to permit, not to allow, to forbid. 

 30, .3. tchin gi, short for tchi ni gi: "so I said." 



30, 5. Instead of gatpAnkshkshi coidd also stand in the text : gatpauuapkshi ; the 

 final -i being used in a temporal sense in both terms. 



30, 8. ku'mets, contr. from ku'mme tchish, or from ku'metat tchlsh. 



30, 9. suashuala, etc. They piled up rocks to serve them as barricades to shoot 

 from behind. 



30, 11. u-i'tsna, distributive form of 6-itchna ; see Dictionary. 



31, 7. Na'wapksh, etc. Transcribed into the fidler and more explicit granimatic 

 forms, this phrase would read: Na'wapkash yamakishtana k^tcha t;f^lanina, "to the 

 northwest of Goose Lake." For Na'wapksh, N^-uapksh, see Dictionary. 



31, 13. This campaign terminated in a decided ^^ctory over the runaway Snake 

 warriors, but failed to accomplish its real purjjose of bringing them back to the 

 Reserve. Nevertheless, these Indians had been severely chastised by losing quite 

 a number of men killed and wounded, and seveu women of their tribe captured by the 

 military. 



Mo'dokni Maklaks shellual. 

 THE MODOC WAR. 



Obtained from the Riddle Family in the Modoc Dialect. 



Sli41am 1869 A. B. Meacbam shuashuldliampkish ndnuk mdklakshash 



In the aa- of 1869 A. B. Meacham the enperintendont over all Indians 



tumn 



shualaliampka T;(alamtala; Modoki'shash hushtanka ne-ul^ksbgishi Koke- 



kept watch in Oregon ; the Modocs he met at the conncil-gronnd on Lost 



tat wigatan tchussni'nish sl4nkosh; nush suawedshash g^-u tiila shatgla 3 



River near the Natural Bridge; me wife mine together he hired 



lutatkAtkl. 



to be interpreters. 



At nli nanuk ne-ulakgish%e'ni gatpa ; nanuk maklaksh waw4pka, 



Then we all to council gronnd went; the wbole tribe was sitting there, 



viint'pni hundred pen nda'ni ta-unep pen viinip p^-ula hihashudtch;ta8h, 6 



fonr hanilrert besides three tens besides four men, 



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