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My son's child (either sex, by male or female), yung-u'-taglu"i. 



A person not of the family (a stranger), shau-a. 



Belatives hj marriage. 



My (laughter's husband (said by either parent), ning'auk'shau-a. 



My daughtei''s husband's father (said by either parent), xmg'u'tikshau-a. 

 My daughter's husband's brother or sister (said by 



cither parent), ting'u'takshau-a. 

 ]\Iy daughter's husband's son by another marriage (said 



by either parent), ilvik'-shau-a. 



Some of the peculiarities of these terms of relationship are, that the 

 form of the term appears to depend in some cases more on the sex of the 

 speaker than on that of the person to whom the term refers; and also that 

 the relations instituted by marriage of a son appear to result in constituting 

 the wife's connections, so far as they are specifically named, as a part of the 

 husband's family, while the relations instituted by the marriage of a daugh- 

 ter are distinguished by the suffix of shau-d, indicating literally that they 

 are strangers, or do not belong to the family proper. 



These terms, or rather the relations of the various terms, are probably 

 the same throughout the Innuit stock, which is my excuse for introducing 

 them here. 



They were obtained from a native and his wife, well known in the 

 United States as having made part of the company on board the Polaris, 

 and both of whom spoke English with tolerable facility. The same terms 

 were taken down repeatedly on several occasions, compared and corrected 

 three times, and great care taken that they should be as free from errors as 

 the circumstances would permit. Nevertheless, some misapprehensions may 

 have crept in, for which the indulgence of the student is requested. This 

 will be readily granted by those who have had personal experience in such 

 difiicult and tedious attempts with aboriginal languages. 



