THE INDIRECT QUESTION. 6G3 



Besides the examples given on page 542 and in the Dictionary, the 

 following may be quoted here : 



hantchipka tchl'k, kahaktok nanuktua nshendshkane then he sucks out, 

 whatsoever is of small size, 71, 6. 7. 



hu'nkst ni nAsh siinde spii'lhi, kat sas hu'k wudshdya I imprison the 

 one for one week, tvho has ivhipped them, 61, 17; cf. Gl, 12, and 

 129, 7. 



hu'nk shillalpksh, kant sha shi'uks gishapa that sick man, ivhoni t-^ ij re- 

 ported killed, 65, 1 8. 



tchdkiak, kat gen gent, x'^S^ the boy, tvho ivent there, is dead. 



wu'la sa tu'nipilns, kat lulk tankt mak'lexa they asked those five, tvho at 

 that time had encamped there, 1 7, 7. 



D. THE INDIRECT QUESTION. 



The direct question mentions the words of the inquirer verbally, whereas 

 the indirect question gives only the sense of them, and clothes its contents 

 in the garb of a subordinate clause. Utterances of doubt, suspicion, incer- 

 titude, when enunciated in a clause depending of a principal clause, also 

 come under the caption of queries indirectly put. Only their contents, not 

 the 2)osition of the words, stamp them as indirect questions ; they are not 

 always introduced by conjunctions, and verbals or participles sometimes 

 serve to e.xpress them. A comparison of the examples added below, with 

 those mentioned under "I'he Interrogative Sentence" will be the best means 

 to show the syntactic difference between the two modes of interrogation. 

 Like the direct question, the indirect question may be afHrmative or nega- 

 tive, and if introduced by any conjunctions at all, these conjunctions are 

 about the same as used in making direct questions. 



ka-i nu shayuakta tarn ml lin shle-etak I do not know ivhether I shall 



find (him, it). 

 ka-itoks nu hushkanka kii-i gatpisht / des2)air of his coming; lit. "not 



indeed I think (he) not to be coming." 

 ki'uks suawinuk sas kants sliuiipkst when a conjurer examined them (to 



find out) irho might be wounded, 21, 9. 10. 



